Principal, Software Engineer

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Role summary:
The Principal Software (Data)
Engineer–Techleadstheevolutionofour Data Lakeandenterprisedataplatform .Thisroledefinesarchitecture,standards,andengineeringpracticesforscalable,reliable,andintelligentdatasystems.

Itdesignsandoperatesdatapipelines,eventstreamingapplications,andlarge-scaleplatformsforanalytics,operations,andAI-driven experiences.

Theengineerpartnerswithteamsacrossengineering,product,analytics,machine learning,andinfrastructuretoensureatrusted,scalable,future-readydataecosystem.

TherolealsoadvancesAI-readydataenablementandusesAItoolstoimproveproductivity,delivery,andoperationaleffectiveness.

About the team:
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 foster innovation, technical excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'll do:

• Leadlarge,cross-functionalengineeringprojectsfromrequirementsgatheringthroughdesignanddelivery
• Providetechnicalleadership,collaboration,andclearcommunicationacrossteams
• Conductdesignandcodereviewstoensurequalityandarchitecturalalignment
• Designscalable,high-availability,high-performancedataplatforms
• Contribute hands-onwhileinfluencingarchitectureandtechnicaldirection
• Solvecomplextechnicalproblemsacrossstructured,semi-structured,andunstructureddata
• Workincloud-native environments
• Mentorothersanddrivecontinuousimprovement
• BuildAI-ready,discoverable,context-richdatafoundations
• ApplyAItoolsinengineeringworkflowsforcodegeneration,pipeline acceleration,documentation,debugging,testing,oroperationalsupport

What you'll bring:

• Strongtechnicalleadership,communication,andcollaborationskills
• Stronganalyticalandproblem-solving skills,withapassionformentoringothers
• Proficiency in Python,SQL,andPy Spark
• ExperiencewithSQL/No
  
  SQL databases
• ExperiencedesigningandimplementingETL/ELTatscale
• Experiencemanagingbatch,streaming,andreal-timedatapipelines
• Hands-onexperiencewithAWS,GCP,Databricks,Snowflake,Spark,Kafka,and Airflow
• Understandingofdistributedprocessingandin-memory computation
• Strongsoftwareengineeringpractices
• Experiencewithdataobservability,schema design,and governance
• AstrongunderstandingofhowdatafoundationsenableAIatscale,includingAI-ready,discoverable,context-richdata
• ApragmaticapproachtousingAItoimproveengineeringproductivityandquality
• Comfortcontributinghands-onwhileshapingarchitectureandtechnicaldirection

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.

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