(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

What you'll do

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help design, build, and evolve Walmart's Tier 0 order service platform that serves as a critical source of truth for order data across the enterprise. You will lead the design of highly scalable, low-latency, and distributed systems to support customer-facing and internal teams.

You will provide technical leadership across architecture, platform modernization, reliability, search, indexing, and event-driven systems, while driving complex cross-team initiatives from design through production. You will also mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, influence long-term technical direction, and partner closely with product and platform teams to deliver reliable solutions at Walmart scale.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and development of scalable, low-latency, resilient Order Service systems.
• Drive architecture and technical direction across distributed systems, search, event-driven platforms, reliability, and modernization.
• Own critical services end to end, from design and implementation through production readiness and operations.
• Partner across product and engineering teams to deliver key commerce, fulfillment, marketplace, and returns capabilities.
• Improve scalability, availability, performance, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, influence decisions, and establish engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and technical growth.
• Lead root-cause analysis and drive long-term reliability improvements.
• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies and architectural patterns.

What you'll bring

• Deep hands-on experience with Java and Spring/Spring Boot, building scalable, reliable backend services.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, performance, concurrency, and large-scale architectures.
• Proven technical and project leadership, driving initiatives from design through production.
• Strong mentorship skills and ability to raise engineering standards.
• Track record of innovation, simplification, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving and deep debugging skills for complex production issues.
• Strong communication and leadership, with the ability to drive discussions, align stakeholders, and influence decisions.
• Ability to lead architecture and design reviews and clearly communicate trade-offs.
• Strong ownership and execution in ambiguous, high-impact environments.

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

1395 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America