(IND) DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 12
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
The Marketplace Platform is Walmart's horizontal engineering layer for the seller and partner ecosystem, spanning the Identity, Seller Profile & Org Data layer, a multi-channel Communication Platform, external-facing APIs and integration health, a Reporting Portal, and a Developer Portal & Sandbox. The team drives platform standardization so marketplace verticals build consistently, securely, and at scale. This Distinguished Software Engineer role owns end-to-end architecture, hands-on production engineering, platform reliability, and AI-augmented engineering practices, acting as a technical force multiplier across teams.
What you will do
- Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.
- Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmart's operational scale
- Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform
- Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production
- Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability
- Prototype new solutions rapidly using AI-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality
- Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability
- Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so
- Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define permanent fixes
- Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes
- Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders
- Design for resilience from first principles. Define and own the platform's non-functional requirements
- Instrument systems to be deeply observable and use the signals to drive continuous improvement
- Build runbooks and operational playbooks that enable the broader team to operate the services confidently
- Proficient with GitHub Copilot, Wibey, and LLM-based tooling as active, daily parts of your development workflow
- Use AI to compress every phase of the engineering loop: schema design validation, code generation and review, test coverage acceleration, documentation, drafting, incident root-cause analysis, and API design feedback
- Identify where AI can replace toil, then build the automation yourself
- Architect and build AI-native capabilities like intelligent API health monitoring, AI-assisted seller onboarding flows, smart alerting and anomaly detection
- Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities into services where they create measurable seller value
- Stay current on the fast-moving AI tooling landscape and bring high-signal, opinionated recommendations to the team
- Model AI-augmented engineering practices for the team through live demos, pairing sessions, and written guides
- Work with engineering leadership to identify and prioritize investments where AI creates the most leverage across teams
- Contribute to the broader Walmart engineering community's understanding of how to build and operate AI-augmented systems responsibly
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 8 year...
- Raise the floor - your code reviews, design feedback, and written standards lift the quality of every engineer in the team
- When a team is stuck on a systems design challenge or a production crisis, you are the person who helps unblock
- Your architectural decisions today shape the technical capabilities and codebase for the future
- Grow technical depth across the org through tech talks, design reviews, RFCs, and hands-on pairing, you are a force multiplier for technical growth across Growth Tech
- Bridge platform and product translate complex technical constraints into clear trade-offs that inform product decisions; translate product ambitions into technically sound, phased engineering strategies
- Pioneer AI adoption - model what AI-augmented engineering looks like at the Distinguished level and create the patterns, playbooks, and tooling that the broader team follows
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for your performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
About Walmart Global Tech
Walmart Global Tech is the technological powerhouse and engineering arm of Walmart Inc., responsible for building and managing foundational technologies, cloud infrastructure, and software systems. The organization powers global retail operations across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart International, delivering customer experiences and enterprise services worldwide. Operating across multiple global hubs, it unites engineering, data science, product design, and artificial intelligence to digitally transform retail.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 25000+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President, AI Acceleration, Product and Design
Senior Vice President and Tech Operating Partner, Walmart International