Position Summary...What you'll do...Role summary: As a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving the full software development lifecycle with a focus on cloud-native architecture and AI/ML integration. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to translate complex business needs into actionable solutions. This role demands a commitment to engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement, ensuring high-quality, maintainable software that supports Walmart's strategic objectives and enhances developer productivity and customer experience.
About the team: The Walmart Business (B2B) group delivers innovative solutions that empower organizations to meet their goals by leveraging Walmart's extensive resources, including fulfillment centers, stores, merchants, and technology. The team focuses on building scalable, reliable software to enhance purchasing, onboarding, marketing, support, and operations. Emphasizing collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, the team ensures high-quality delivery aligned with business objectives and customer needs. This dynamic environment encourages innovation and impactful contributions across multiple disciplines, fostering growth and advancing Walmart's expanding B2B capabilities.
What you'll do: - Drive cross-functional delivery - translate business requirements into technical solutions, manage stakeholder communication, and ship on time.
- Lead design and architecture reviews - partner with tech leads and product teams during discovery to define high-level designs aligned to platform standards.
- Build AI-powered applications - integrate ML components and automation to solve complex problems and advance platform intelligence.
- Prototype to de-risk - run proof-of-concepts, validate ideas early, and drive cross-functional alignment before full-scale execution.
- Mentor and grow the team - raise technical standards, champion best practices
- Improve continuously - sharpen processes, tools, and product quality through innovation, documentation, and structured feedback.
What you'll bring: - 8+ years of professional experience delivering production-grade systems at scale.
- Strong backend and full-stack engineering experience in Python, Java, or TypeScript, etc, building modular, maintainable, and well-documented solutions at scale.
- Hands-on experience with generative AI and LLMs - leveraging them to boost personal and team development efficiency.
- Proven debugging and code quality discipline - rigorous code review practices, testing standards, and documentation-driven development habits.
- Data-driven problem-solving ability - translating ambiguous business needs into precise, actionable technical requirements.
- Strong communication and stakeholder fluency - able to convey complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
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, 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.
Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, 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
