As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the development and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving the full software lifecycle from design through deployment and maintenance. This role requires expertise in cloud-native architecture, AI/ML integration, and software design patterns to build resilient, modular solutions. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to align efforts with strategic priorities. Your focus on engineering excellence, innovation, and data-driven decision-making will ensure high-quality outcomes that support business objectives and enhance developer productivity.
About the team:Our team develops and manages Puppet for configuration management across Stores, Home Office, Distribution Centers, WebPoS, Central America, and TFO-managed compute environments in OpenStack, Azure, and GCP, supporting over 200,000 nodes. We emphasize simplifying processes, enhancing security, and accelerating deployment speed. Applying cloud-native architecture principles and advanced engineering design, we deliver scalable and reliable solutions. Collaboration and innovation drive continuous improvement, enabling efficient platform capabilities and seamless integration across systems. This environment fosters technical excellence and problem-solving to meet evolving business and operational needs.
- Deliver platform capabilities including infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks aligned with roadmap milestones and domain priorities.
- Drive full software development lifecycle activities such as coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Apply cloud-native architecture principles to ensure scalable, resilient, and agile systems.
- Conduct system design reviews to validate feasibility and ensure alignment with architectural best practices.
- Integrate AI/ML components and develop intelligent automation features using multiple programming languages.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and promote engineering excellence through documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex problems into actionable technical requirements and track success metrics.
What you'll bring:- Strong direct Rust and Python development experience, including ownership of production code; both are mandatory and theoretical or limited exposure is insufficient.
- Experience developing and maintaining backend services and REST APIs.
- Experience building backend applications, APIs, and application integrations.
- Ability to contribute to backend services, APIs, and frontend components as required.
- Experience with backend application design, debugging, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.
- Designing, scaling, and maintaining low-latency, event-driven, and microservices-based distributed architectures.
- Understanding of concurrency, memory safety, error handling, and resource management in systems programming.
- Experience working in collaborative, fast-paced product engineering environments.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
- Commitment to engineering excellence through debugging, remedial action, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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 :
- Stock.
