STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 16
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
Customer Technology: Omni Services owns several areas of Store Services in Digital Retail such as Wireless, BPO, SIM and ACC, responsible for architecture, design and delivery of programs for Walmart US markets. The ecosystem spans backend technologies hosted on premises and in the cloud plus applications across Web, Android and iOS, using Core Java technologies and Azure Cloud Technology. As a Staff Engineer, the role is a senior technical leader who translates complex business problems into scalable technical solutions, leads architecture and hands-on delivery end-to-end, and advances AI-native engineering with modern AI capabilities and developer tools.
What you will do
- Embed directly with Walmart business teams and customers to understand their workflows, uncover high-value problems, and turn ambiguity into clear technical plans.
- Own complex initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and rapid prototyping through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Stay hands-on across design, development, testing, deployment, and production support, delivering reliable solutions at Walmart scale.
- Build and productionize AI-native solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, semantic search) with rigorous evaluation, security, governance, and observability.
- Identify patterns across engagements and turn them into reusable architectures, components, and standards that let other teams move faster.
- Serve as the voice of the customer to Product, Platform, and Engineering, shaping roadmaps based on what you learn in the field.
- Lead technically without direct authority: drive architecture decisions, raise engineering quality, and mentor engineers across teams and geographies.
- Connect every engagement to measurable customer and business outcomes, balancing speed, quality, cost, and long-term sustainability
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable applications, platforms, or distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on system design and architecture experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and design patterns.
- Extensive hands-on experience with modern backend, frontend, cloud, and distributed technologies.
- Strong experience designing and building RESTful services, microservices, APIs, messaging systems, and data platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern CI/CD technologies.
- Experience with observability, reliability, performance, security, and production operations.
- Demonstrated experience conducting architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Strong hands-on ability to prototype and validate technical solutions.
- Experience applying AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development is highly valuable.
- Ability to learn and adopt emerging technologies quickly.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to influence and build consensus across teams without direct authority.
- Strong customer and business orientation
- Demonstrated ability to drive change and operate effectively in a highly complex engineering environment.
- Knowledge of Retail Domain will be an added advantage
- 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.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for 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
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