Distinguished, Software Engineer
Walmart · Chennai · Posted 2026-07-21
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About the role
Walmart's Marketplace is the backbone of a thriving ecosystem connecting millions of third-party sellers to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. You will be build applications that provide accurate and contextual intelligence and recommendations to sellers on Walmart Marketplace and Omni platforms.
What You'll Own:
The Seller growth team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the Seller business growth. The team develops robust recommendations & experiences to improve listing quality, timely actions to get maximum exposure for their listings, help them progress in their ratings and reviews on web, mobile, API channels.
Architecture & System Design
Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.
Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt
Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmart's operational scale
Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform
Hands-On Engineering
Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production
Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability
Prototype new solutions rapidly using Al-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality
Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.
Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability
Complex Problem Solving
Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so
Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define permanent fixes
Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes
Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders
Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence
Design for resilience from first principles. Define and own the platform's non-functional requirements
Instrument systems to be deeply observable and use the signals to drive continuous improvement
Build runbooks and operational playbooks that enable the broader team to operate the services confidently
Al & Innovation
This role is Al-forward by design and needs someone who actively shapes how it is used and pushes the frontier of what Al-augmented engineering looks like at scale.
Day-to-Day Al Fluency
Proficient with GitHub Copilot, Wibey, and LLM-based tooling as active, daily parts of your development workflow
Use Al to compress every phase of the engineering loop: schema design validation, code generation and review, test coverage acceleration, documentation, drafting, incident root-cause analysis, and API design feedback
Identify where Al can replace toil, then build the automation yourself
Al-Native Platform Thinking
Architect and build Al-native capabilities like intelligent API health monitoring, Al-assisted seller onboarding flows, smart alerting and anomaly detection
Evaluate and integrate Al/ML capabilities into services where they create measurable seller value
Stay current on the fast-moving AI tooling landscape and bring high-signal, opinionated recommendations to the team
Al Advocacy & Enablement
Model Al-augmented engineering practices for the team through live demos, pairing sessions, and written guides
Work with engineering leadership to identify and prioritize investments where Al creates the most leverage across teams
Contribute to the broader Walmart engineering community's understanding of how to build and operate Al-augmented systems responsibly
Responsibilities:
- Walmart's Marketplace is the backbone of a thriving ecosystem connecting millions of third-party sellers to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. You will be build applications that provide accurate and contextual intelligence and recommendations to sellers on Walmart Marketplace and Omni platforms.
- What You'll Own:
- The Seller growth team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the Seller business growth. The team develops robust recommendations & experiences to improve listing quality, timely actions to get maximum exposure for their listings, help them progress in their ratings and reviews on web, mobile, API channels.
- Architecture & System Design
- Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.
- Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmart's operational scale
- Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform
- Hands-On Engineering
- Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production
- Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability
- Prototype new solutions rapidly using Al-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality
- Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability
- Complex Problem Solving
- Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so
- Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define permanent fixes
- Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes
- Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders
- Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence
- Design for resilience from first principles. Define and own the platform's non-functional
Qualifications:
- Distinguished Engineers at Walmart lead through technical gravity. Your impact multiplies across teams.
- Raise the floor - your code reviews, design feedback, and written standards lift the quality of every engineer in the team
- When a team is stuck on a systems design challenge or a production crisis, you are the person who helps unblock
- Your architectural decisions today shape the technical capabilities and codebase for the future
- Grow technical depth across the org through tech talks, design reviews, RFCs, and hands-on pairing, you are a force multiplier for technical growth across Growth Tech
- Bridge platform and product translate complex technical constraints into clear trade-offs that inform product decisions; translate product ambitions into technically sound, phased engineering strategies
- Pioneer Al adoption - model what Al-augmented engineering looks like at the Distinguished level and create the patterns, playbooks, and tooling that the broader team follows
Qualifications
- Distinguished Engineers at Walmart lead through technical gravity.
- Your impact multiplies across teams.
- Raise the floor - your code reviews, design feedback, and written standards lift the quality of every engineer in the team
- When a team is stuck on a systems design challenge or a production crisis, you are the person who helps unblock
- Your architectural decisions today shape the technical capabilities and codebase for the future
- Grow technical depth across the org through tech talks, design reviews, RFCs, and hands-on pairing
- you are a force multiplier for technical growth across Growth Tech
- Bridge platform and product translate complex technical constraints into clear trade-offs that inform product decisions; translate product ambitions into technically sound, phased engineering strategies
- Pioneer Al adoption - model what Al-augmented engineering looks like at the Distinguished level and create the patterns, playbooks, and tooling that the broader team follows
Responsibilities
- Walmart's Marketplace is the backbone of a thriving ecosystem connecting millions of third-party sellers to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.
- You will be build applications that provide accurate and contextual intelligence and recommendations to sellers on Walmart Marketplace and Omni platforms.
- What You'll Own:
- The Seller growth team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the Seller business growth.
- The team develops robust recommendations & experiences to improve listing quality, timely actions to get maximum exposure for their listings, help them progress in their ratings and reviews on web, mobile, API channels.
- Architecture & System Design
- Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.
- Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmart's operational scale
- Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform Hands-On Engineering
- Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production
- Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability
- Prototype new solutions rapidly using Al-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality
- Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability
- Complex Problem Solving
- Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so
- Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define permanent fixes
- Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes
- Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders
- Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence
- Design for resilience from first principles.
- Define and own the platform's non-functional