(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Role summary

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving innovation in cloud-native architectures and AI/ML integration. This role requires strategic technical leadership across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with long-term roadmaps and business objectives.

You will oversee the full software development lifecycle, mentor engineering teams, and foster engineering excellence. Collaborating with cross-functional partners, you will translate complex business needs into actionable technical solutions while promoting continuous improvement and operational excellence to support Walmart's evolving technology landscape.

Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for this position

What you'll do

• Lead platform engineering efforts to deliver scalable, cloud-native infrastructure and reusable tooling aligned with strategic roadmaps.
• Drive full software development lifecycle activities, including design, testing, deployment, and maintenance of distributed systems optimized for AI/ML integration.
• Architect intelligent software solutions leveraging model-driven design and advanced programming languages to enhance system performance and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing architectural standards and fostering engineering excellence across teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and measurable success metrics.
• Promote continuous improvement through innovation, knowledge sharing, and adoption of best practices in software engineering.
• Design agentic workflows that call internal MCP tools and Java/Spring Boot microservices safely, including authentication, and guardrails for autonomous or semi-autonomous action.

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership, delivering scalable infrastructure and reusable tooling aligned with strategic roadmaps.
• Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture and distributed system design ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Strong technical execution skills across the full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and incident response.
• Proficiency in AI/ML integration and building intelligent software systems using languages such as Python, Java, and C++.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical mentorship and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams.
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements and measure success.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and maintaining high-quality technical standards.
• Hands-on experience designing, extending, or operating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, to expose functional capabilities as tools for agentic and LLM-based systems.
• Experience building or integrating with super-agent systems, including agent orchestration, tool-calling, and prompt/skill design for use cases.

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 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 7 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 or related field and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field

Primary Location

815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America