Staff, Software Engineer

What you'll do

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling highly available, enterprise-grade platforms that power Walmart's technology ecosystem. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influence architecture decisions, drive engineering best practices, and deliver innovative solutions that support business growth and operational excellence. This role requires a strong combination of hands-on software development expertise, architectural leadership, and the ability to mentor engineers while working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

What You'll Do

• Drive the technical vision and influence product strategy, architecture, and roadmap development.
• Design, develop, and implement large-scale, distributed, and highly scalable applications and platforms.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains.
• Architect and develop high-performance, high-throughput systems capable of supporting large transaction volumes.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Business teams to define and deliver innovative technology solutions.
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead resolution efforts for complex production and business-critical issues.
• Establish software engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Ensure software solutions meet quality, security, compliance, and performance requirements.
• Oversee testing strategies, maintenance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent by providing technical guidance, coaching, and code reviews.
• Champion Agile development methodologies and contribute to continuous delivery and DevOps practices.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field and 12+ years of software development experience; OR equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, preferably developing retail or large-scale enterprise applications using Java technologies.
• 8+ years of experience designing and architecting highly scalable, distributed, and high-performing applications.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with two or more open-source or cloud technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Solr, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Spanner, or similar platforms.
• 4+ years of experience developing and architecting high-transaction, high-throughput systems.
• 3+ years of experience building RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native application development and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading large, complex technical projects from concept through production deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience with Scala.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile development environments across geographically distributed teams.
• 2+ years of experience with Hadoop, Hive, GCP, Spark Streaming, or related big data technologies.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, data-intensive applications, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across organizations.

Leadership Expectations

• Think strategically and drive long-term technology investments.
• Influence stakeholders and engineering teams through technical expertise and collaboration.
• Promote engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Model Walmart values while fostering an inclusive and high-performing team culture.

Pay and benefits

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.

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 bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications

• Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
• Option 1: Bachelor'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.
• Option 2: 6 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 2 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.

Primary Location

1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America