Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

The Principal Software (Data) Engineer – Tech leads the evolution of our Data Lake and enterprise data platform. This role defines architecture, standards, and engineering practices for scalable, reliable, and intelligent data systems. It designs and operates data pipelines, event streaming applications, and large-scale platforms for analytics, operations, and AI-driven experiences. The engineer partners with teams across engineering, product, analytics, machine learning, and infrastructure to ensure a trusted, scalable, future-ready data ecosystem.

The role also advances AI-ready data enablement and uses AI tools to improve productivity, delivery, and operational effectiveness.

The Data Engineering team for the Vizio Datalake drives a data-first approach to support key business and product goals. The team ensures data quality, governance, visibility, and accessibility to enable reliable analytics and faster decision-making. Collaborating across functions, members design and implement scalable technical solutions while maintaining strong standards for data integrity. Leveraging expertise in cloud architecture, system design, and problem-solving, the team delivers impactful results that advance organizational objectives and continuous improvement.

This environment fosters innovation, technical excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lead large, cross-functional engineering projects from requirements gathering through design and delivery
• Provide technical leadership, collaboration, and clear communication across teams
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure quality and architectural alignment
• Design scalable, high-availability, high-performance data platforms
• Contribute hands-on while influencing architecture and technical direction
• Solve complex technical problems across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Work in cloud-native environments
• Mentor others and drive continuous improvement
• Build AI-ready, discoverable, context-rich data foundations
• Apply AI tools in engineering workflows for code generation, pipeline acceleration, documentation, debugging, testing, or operational support

• Strong technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for mentoring others
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Py Spark
• Experience with SQL/No
  
  SQL databases
• Experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT at scale
• Experience managing batch, streaming, and real-time data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow
• Understanding of distributed processing and in-memory computation
• Strong software engineering practices
• Experience with data observability, schema design, and governance
• A strong understanding of how data foundations enable AI at scale, including AI-ready, discoverable, context-rich data
• A pragmatic approach to using AI to improve engineering productivity and quality
• Comfort contributing hands-on while shaping architecture and technical direction

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  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…