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Position Summary...
What you'll do...
You'll sweep us off our feet if:
- You are an experienced performance engineer motivated to make all things run fast in production
- You are interested in scaling a highly performant ecommerce platform
- You want to define and build the next generation of digital experiences that will have an impact on hundreds of millions of customers
- You enable developers and business teams understand where bottlenecks or issues exist in their services from a performance context.
- You a self-starter who thrives in a startup-like culture
- You enjoy working on complicated technical challenges, learning from and collaborating with experienced engineers
- You want to contribute to the Open-Source community to help improve the performance and resiliency ecosystem
About Team:
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
You'll make an impact by:
- Owning the end-to-end performance with a shift-left attitude through design, launch, and operation: Support architecture design, influence requirements, and help support new product launch.
- Tackling performance issues for cutting edge technologies: Analyze and debug difficult server-side performance issues, identify bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve user experience.
- Working collaboratively with a large group of engineers from all disciplines within Engineering to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency and present findings to a group with a varying degree of technical as well as business experience.
- Providing deep visibility to what is going on for all ecommerce sites: Run performance, resiliency and capacity experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various front-end and service tiers.
- Proactively investigate site performance issues in production and work with systems, network, application operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.
- Effectively collaborate and communicate for better performance governance across all teams in Walmart. Present performance-related findings to various teams including C-level executives.
What you'll bring:
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other technical field.
- 15+ years' experience in a performance engineering, capacity engineering or site reliability role for customer facing solutions preferably in ecommerce production.
- Expert knowledge in Performance testing, profiling, tuning and monitoring tools, especially testing tools such as Silk Performer, Apache JMeter, or LoadRunner.
- Experience in coding/scripting languages such as Java, PHP, Python or Perl or test certification (ISTQB)
- Strong knowledge and experience with Databases (Relational and NoSQL) and/or caching solutions (Couchbase/Redis)
- Expert knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud-like environments.
- Solid DevOps skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.
- Ability to successfully lead multiple projects while remaining highly technical.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiairty with the Walmart Ecosystem with exposure to open source tools and technologies
- Experience in production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.).
- Self-starter attitude required to experiment with new technologies, research technology trends and apply the results to performance problems
- Basic familiarity with continuous integration tools and frameworks like Jenkins, etc.
- Basic experience with Cassandra, KairosDB, Apache Solr, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark or Grafana and/or Big Data processing technologies.
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
Sunnyvale, California US-04397:The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09050:The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
680 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4834, United States of America
About Walmart
At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
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