DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary... The Distinguished Engineer Relational Databases will define and drive the technical vision for large-scale relational database platforms within Data Services. This role will lead the architecture and evolution of highly available, scalable, secure SQL systems supporting mission-critical workloads across Walmart Global Tech.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in PostgreSQL or comparable SQL technologies, database internals, query optimization, performance engineering, and production operations. They will influence platform strategy, mentor senior engineers, and partner with application teams to build reliable, automated, and operationally excellent database capabilities at enterprise scale.

What youll do... Distinguished Engineer Relational Databases Position Summary

The Data Services team within Global Technology Platform powers mission-critical data infrastructure across the enterprise, enabling SQL, NoSQL, and messaging services for tens of thousands of deployments across Walmart Global Tech. These platforms support multi-petabyte-scale data, millions of requests per second, and extremely high availability requirements for applications used across Walmart stores, digital channels, supply chain, and internal enterprise systems.

We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer Relational Databases to define and drive the technical vision for relational database platforms at massive scale. This is a senior technical leadership role for an engineer with deep expertise in SQL systems, database internals, query execution, performance optimization, and production operations.

You will shape the architecture and evolution of relational database capabilities across the organization, with a strong focus on PostgreSQL and other SQL systems such as MySQL and Azure SQL. You will work on some of the most complex database challenges in the industry, including query planning and optimization, high availability, scalability, reliability, performance engineering, automation, and operational excellence.

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will operate as a hands-on technical leader, influencing platform strategy, guiding architectural decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and partnering closely with application teams to design and operate complex, high-scale systems. You will help build sophisticated tooling and platforms on top of open-source and commercial database technologies, tailoring them to Walmart s scale, reliability, security, and developer productivity needs.

What You ll Do

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for relational database platforms within Data Services.
• Lead the design and evolution of highly available, scalable, secure, and operationally efficient SQL platforms that support mission-critical workloads at enterprise scale.
• Provide deep technical leadership in relational database internals, including query planning, query optimization, storage engines, indexing, replication, transactions, concurrency control, and performance tuning.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across large SQL installations, including performance degradation, query regressions, replication issues, availability incidents, capacity constraints, and operational bottlenecks.
• Build and influence sophisticated tooling, automation, and platform capabilities that improve database reliability, performance, observability, developer productivity, and operational simplicity.
• Partner with application engineering teams to design, review, and optimize database architectures for complex distributed systems and high-throughput workloads.
• Establish technical standards, best practices, reference architectures, and operational patterns for relational database usage across the organization.
• Influence senior engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders by clearly communicating technical strategy, trade-offs, risks, and execution plans.
• Mentor principal and senior engineers, raising the technical bar across database engineering, distributed systems, performance engineering, and production operations.

What You ll Bring

• 12+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or database engineering experience, with significant depth in relational database systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise operating SQL systems at scale, preferably PostgreSQL; experience with MySQL, Azure SQL, or comparable relational database technologies is also highly relevant.
• Strong understanding of SQL internals, including query parsing, planning, optimization, execution, indexing, storage, transaction management, locking, replication, and recovery.
• Proven experience debugging and operating complex SQL deployments in production, including high-availability, high-throughput, and low-latency environments.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose performance issues across the full stack, including query plans, schema design, indexing strategy, database configuration, storage behavior, connection management, and application access patterns.
• Experience designing and operating database platforms with strong reliability, availability, backup and restore, disaster recovery, observability, security, and compliance characteristics.
• Strong systems engineering background, with the ability to reason deeply about distributed systems, concurrency, networking, storage, failure modes, and capacity planning.
• Experience building automation, tooling, or platform capabilities around open-source or commercial database systems.
• Proven ability to define technical strategy, drive architecture across teams, and influence large-scale engineering direction without relying solely on formal authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex database and platform concepts to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong track record of mentoring engineers, reviewing architecture, and raising engineering standards across a large organization.
• Strong programming experience in one or more systems or platform languages such as Java, Python, C++, Go.

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 experts 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.

Flexible 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 office for daily work, with 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.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 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 4 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.

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