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Walmart Global Tech

Principal, Software Engineer

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Hybrid
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Lead design, development, and operation of Walmart's in-house IAM platform. Build scalable microservices, implement authentication/authorization (SSO, MFA, federation), integrate with cloud and AD, ensure monitoring and incident response, mentor engineers, and drive technical strategy for high-scale identity services.
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Position Summary...As a Principal Engineer specializing in Identity and Access Management at Walmart, you will lead the design, development, and implementation of secure and scalable IAM solutions that protect the organization’s digital assets and ensure seamless user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to set technical direction, ensure best engineering practices, and mentor engineers across the organization. Your expertise will guide the development of robust, secure, and high-performance systems, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. You will play a key role in shaping Walmart’s technology strategy, influencing product roadmaps, and ensuring the successful execution of complex projects that impact millions of customers and associates.

What you'll do...

As a Principal Engineer specializing in Identity and Access Management at Walmart, you will lead the design, development, and implementation of secure and scalable IAM solutions that protect the organization’s digital assets and ensure seamless user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to set technical direction, ensure best engineering practices, and mentor engineers across the organization. Your expertise will guide the development of robust, secure, and high-performance systems, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. You will play a key role in shaping Walmart’s technology strategy, influencing product roadmaps, and ensuring the successful execution of complex projects that impact millions of customers and associates.

About the team

Run Time Platforms (RTP), a division of Global Technology Platform (GTP), is dedicated to developing products and platforms that empower application teams to efficiently deploy and manage runtime environments. This position focuses on our proprietary Identity and Access Management (IAM) system—a core, in-house solution. The IAM platform supports multiple businesses across various countries, handling billions of requests daily and serving as a critical component of our global operations.

What You’ll Do

Design and implement new features while continuously improving quality of Identity and Access Management application

  • Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide
  • Designs reusable strategies, decisions, service components, libraries and frameworks to support enterprise-level IAM services.
  • Develop software meeting code quality standards and metrics
  • Guide and mentor others members in the team to promote highly technical and self-sufficient teams
  • Create and maintain technical documentation for the team to reference and share with our internal customers
  • Ensures the maintenance, patching, operating, and monitoring of IAM systems.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves system incidents, problems and changes, as required
  • Engage and support application teams integrating with IAM, SSO, Active Directory and related modules
  • Seeking and maintaining knowledge (cross/up skill) of current and upcoming identity security technologies.

What You’ll bring

Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining microservices-based systems.

  • Deep Understanding of IAM concepts : Authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, RBAC, ABAC, and federation protocols (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect)
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, and API documentation (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI).
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with deploying and managing microservices on cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Understanding of messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS).
  • Strong expertise in Java/J2EE/Spring technologies
  • Skills in monitoring, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger).
  •  Implementing authentication, authorization, and secure communication between services.
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases like Cosmos DB, Cassandra, MongoDB

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.

Work
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people

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 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 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...Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India

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