(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

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**What you'll do...**
**Job Summary:** Join Walmart’s Cassandra Platform team to design, operate, and continuously improve one of the largest distributed database environments in the world. This role combines production ownership with hands-on engineering focused on automation, reliability, and AI-driven efficiency. **What you'll do:**

+ Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager, Cassandra Platform
+ Design and build automation to manage provisioning, scaling, upgrades, decommissions, and health monitoring of Cassandra clusters
+ Reduce repetitive operational work by developing internal tools and self-service capabilities
+ Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response and root cause analysis for production systems
+ Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across a large-scale distributed database footprint
+ Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics, alert quality, and engi...