Position Summary...What you'll do...Join Walmart's Global Tech Data Engineering team to build and scale the data platforms powering Marketplace and connecting millions of sellers and customers. As a
Staff Data Engineer, you'll design and optimize real-time data pipelines, enable AI-driven applications, and drive high-impact decisions at enterprise scale. This role offers end-to-end ownership and the opportunity to shape the future of data and commerce.
What you'll do: - Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to support business analytics and reporting needs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify data requirements and translate them into efficient data models and architectures.
- Extract, transform, and integrate data from internal and external sources, ensuring data quality and consistency.
- Implement and optimize data storage solutions using cloud platforms and big data technologies such as Apache Spark and Kafka.
- Analyze complex data flows and system integrations to propose effective solutions and improvements.
- Develop, test, and deploy code to automate data processing and support data governance standards.
What you'll bring: - 7-10+ years of experience in data engineering, building and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data platforms.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native data ecosystems (GCP or Azure preferred), including services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, or equivalent, with experience shaping platform-level decisions.
- Proven track record of designing data architectures that scale across multiple teams and use cases, including batch, streaming, and hybrid systems.
- Strong understanding of agent-consumable data patterns, including semantic modeling, embeddings, knowledge graphs, and context enrichment strategies.
- Expert-level skills in data modeling and system design, with the ability to reason about how schema, latency, and storage choices impact retrieval quality and AI reasoning.
- Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with LLM-enabled systems, including prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI).
- Advanced knowledge of data governance and trust frameworks, including quality, access control, lineage, and compliance-especially for AI auditability.
- Fluency in Python, Java, or Scala, with a strong engineering mindset around testability, maintainability, and performance; deep experience with Spark/PySpark.
- Expert SQL skills and experience optimizing analytical workloads across massive datasets.
- Strong systems thinking and technical leadership, with the ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.
- Experience with real-time and analytical tooling such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, Druid, Presto, and how they fit into modern data and AI architectures.
Benefits:Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Sunnyvale, California US-11656: The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-10735: 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 :
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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 and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
3 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics, ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud, Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field, 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...1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
