DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER - WFS
Walmart · Posted Oct 22
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
Walmart's Marketplace within Growth Tech connects millions of third-party sellers to customers, and the Walmart Fulfilment Services team builds the global platform and workflows that support the seller fulfilment journey. The team works on cloud microservices, seller portals, APIs, and AI-driven analytics. This Distinguished Engineer role owns architecture, hands-on development, platform standards, reliability, and AI-augmented engineering for Seller Center experiences and mission-critical services.
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 Al-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
- This role is Al-forward by design and needs someone who actively shapes how it is used and pushes the frontier of what Al-augmented engineering looks like at scale.
- Proficient with GitHub Copilot, Wibey, and LLM-based tooling as active, daily parts of your development workflow
- Use Al 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 Al can replace toil, then build the automation yourself
- Architect and build Al-native capabilities like intelligent API health monitoring, Al-assisted seller onboarding flows, smart alerting and anomaly detection
- Evaluate and integrate Al/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 Al-augmented engineering practices for the team through live demos, pairing sessions, and written guides
- Work with engineering leadership to identify and prioritize investments where Al creates the most leverage across teams
- Contribute to the broader Walmart engineering community's understanding of how to build and operate Al-augmented systems responsibly
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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 Al adoption - model what Al-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
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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