(IND) DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 7
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
Walmart Global Tech's Marketplace Engineering team powers Walmart Marketplace, where third-party sellers meet millions of customers, with the Seller Order Life Cycle (SOLC) and Ship with Walmart charters enabling seller experiences and scalable platforms for seller fulfilled orders. The team builds intelligent platforms and resilient systems spanning listing, pricing, inventory, and pre-order/post-order experiences that integrate with partner platforms across the Walmart ecosystem. This Distinguished Engineer role is a hands-on technical leadership position driving architecture and technology strategy, cross-domain platform design, and engineering standards for high-impact Marketplace initiatives.
What you will do
- Define and champion architectural blueprints, engineering standards, and best practices across initiatives.
- Set the vision for cross-domain and cross-platform integration, ensuring solutions are reusable, scalable, and built for long-term growth.
- Partner with product and business leaders to shape technical strategy as part of new capability launches.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks, providing recommendations for adoption where they can accelerate innovation and execution.
- Guide the evolution of technology stacks and platform capabilities to support diverse logistic carriers and seller needs.
- Mentor and guide senior engineers and engineering leaders on system design, coding standards, operational excellence, and modern architectural patterns.
- Lead the design and implementation of complex, large-scale distributed systems with a focus on performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
- Drive engineering excellence through strong observability, automation, CI/CD, and operational best practices at scale.
- Champion secure coding practices and ensure solutions are designed with reliability, privacy, and compliance in mind.
- Remain hands-on in critical technical areas, helping teams solve ambiguous, high-complexity engineering problems.
- Lead deep technical discovery and requirement analysis for complex, cross-functional Marketplace initiatives.
- Translate business goals into scalable technical solutions and platform investments.
- Mediate and resolve conflicting requirements across stakeholders, balancing speed, flexibility, and long-term maintainability.
- Shape roadmaps for foundational capabilities and engineering investments that unlock business value.
- Guide the creation of technical design artifacts, epics, and implementation plans for large cross-functional programs.
- Drive the design of secure, scalable, and highly available systems that support Marketplace growth.
- Ensure strong engineering discipline around data protection, service reliability, access controls, and platform security.
- Oversee system health, vulnerability management, and architectural risk mitigation across SOLC-owned capabilities.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and industry standards as applicable.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior leadership, influencing platform investments and engineering strategy.
- Lead cross-functional technical discussions, build alignment across teams, and drive decisions using data and sound engineering judgment.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Represent Marketplace engineering in broader organizational conversations and help raise the bar for technical excellence across Walmart.
- Attract, develop, and mentor top technical talent through coaching, technical leadership, and a strong culture of engineering excellence.
- Foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, ownership, and continuous learning across the organization.
- Model Walmart's values and ethical standards in all interactions.
- Drive continuous improvement in architecture, developer productivity, system quality, and operational maturity.
- Champion modern engineering practices and pragmatic innovation to accelerate delivery of strategic Marketplace capabilities.
- Encourage experimentation and thoughtful risk-taking while maintaining strong technical judgment and accountability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Deep working knowledge of cloud-native distributed system development; Azure / GCP / WCNP preferred.
- Strong experience building full-stack, multi-platform, large-scale, low-latency systems using microservices and distributed architectures.
- Proven experience mentoring engineers, technical leaders, and architects, and leading large engineering efforts with strong engineering excellence and system design rigor.
- Strong hands-on coding experience with the ability to go deep on architecture and implementation details when needed.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with product, program management, QA, release management, operations, and other engineering teams.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and scaling software platforms for large user bases, with a focus on modularity, extensibility, and long-term maintainability.
- Strong platform-oriented decision-making, balancing technical and business needs in fast-paced, complex environments.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared technical goals.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect technical strategy to business outcomes.
- Exceptional and concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growing environment with ambiguity and high ownership.
- Knowledge of current AI tools for engineering
Preferred qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or similar plus 15 years or more in the field OR a MS in Computer Science and 12 years or more of experience.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
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