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Must Haves:
Golang
Application Development
Job Description: Overview
Join a newly formed engineering team responsible for advancing Event Horizon, Walmart's enterprise messaging platform that powers critical promotions and customer engagement capabilities. Event Horizon is already deployed and supporting production workloads across the business, including Sam's Club, and is entering its next phase of growth with significant feature enhancements, scalability improvements, and platform modernization efforts.
This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput backend services. You will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling messaging infrastructure that supports millions of customer interactions across Walmart's digital ecosystem. Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang and Java
Build and enhance core components of the Event Horizon messaging platform
Develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems that process large volumes of events and messages
Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities
Drive improvements in platform performance, reliability, observability, and scalability
Implement event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing solutions
Build APIs, microservices, and messaging integrations that support promotional experiences across multiple channels
Participate in architecture discussions and influence long-term technical strategy
Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis for complex distributed systems
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational excellence initiatives
Required Qualifications
5+ years of software engineering experience
Strong hands-on experience with Golang (preferred primary language)
Experience building distributed systems and microservices architectures
Experience with messaging, event streaming, or event-driven platforms
Strong understanding of REST APIs and backend service development
Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS, or similar messaging technologies
Experience building platform-level services used by multiple engineering teams