(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Role summary

Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role involves driving the full software development lifecycle, applying cloud-native architecture principles, and ensuring technical excellence through design reviews and mentorship.

Collaborating across teams, you will translate complex user needs into actionable solutions while promoting continuous improvement and innovation. Your expertise will support engineering productivity, system resilience, and long-term sustainability aligned with business objectives and evolving technology landscapes.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives, internal developer tools, CI/CD improvements, and developer productivity.
• Translate business and technical requirements into reliable, maintainable software solutions.
• Build and support event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Design and optimize data storage using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot production issues, resolve defects, and support smooth releases.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning.
• Create documentation, operational playbooks, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams.
• Mentor engineers and help foster a culture of technical excellence.

What you'll bring

• Strong proficiency in Java, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Spring Boot, RESTful services, microservices, and cloud-native development.
• Experience with Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build tools, automated testing, and deployment practices.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, orchestration technologies.
• Experience with observability tools for logging, distributed tracing.
• Working knowledge of React, HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript.
• Hands on AI engineering experience in using LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, or RAG-based architectures.
• Exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP), Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, tool use, agentic workflows, context management, and human-in-the-loop AI automation.

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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

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

2403 Se J St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America