Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

Sunnyvale, CA, United StatesFull-time$185,587–$286,000Posted Oct 29, 2026

About the role

What you'll do...

Position: Staff Software Engineer

Job Location: 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Duties: Explore relevant software products and solutions from an existing repertoire that can address business/technical needs. Assess software gaps between the customer and business expectations and the existing software product and solutions. Classify the requirements into applicable types. Anticipate the solution risks and issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for software components and applications. Track and analyze defects for the component or module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past software engineering solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the software application. Conduct complex maintenance procedures for software applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the software application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics. Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, and performance data and provide analysis. Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Assist in the design of software solutions such that processes and applications work in tandem for specific components or modules of a product. Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assist in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed software designs using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules or components of a product. Select appropriate frameworks, platforms, and environments for software coding and configuration and scripting. Help implement telemetry features by determining data/metrics requirement within the domain. Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks. Create and configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability, and high-scalability needs. Arrange software engineering requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), testing, or any other process across the domain. Translate customer requirements into test strategy. Select, introduce and implement various tools for testing. Identify scope and method of testing for each requirement. Ensure that the test cases cover all the test scenarios for the software product/solution requirements. Help with the execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire product.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related area and 4 years of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related area.

Skills required: Experience coding in object-oriented programming to develop Large Scale Backed retail applications. Experience with highly scalable, fault-tolerant, microservices design and implementation of REST APIs in Java. Experience with database tuning, clean-up, and troubleshooting of performance database management and analytics using AzureSQL and BigQuery. Experience with highly performant and optimized business flows and data pipelines using data structures and algorithms. Experience with health monitoring, trends analysis, and anomalies detection using Metric and Analytics tools Splunk and Grafana. Experience designing and developing Multi-Tenant Reverse Logistics Platform using MVC Architecture, Apache Camel, and Apache Spring. Experience deploying production systems, availability maintenance of services, and DevOps using Azure Cloud and on-premises cloud. Experience designing Async systems to provide distributed and highly performant services for Supply Chain Ecosystem using Apache Kafka, JMS, and IBMMQ. Experience debugging and directing Root Cause Analysis using Dynatrace, SQL, and BigQuery. Experience supporting eCommerce customer facing systems by performing data correction, reprocessing of any failed events, and providing uninterrupted service in case of unavailability using Shell Scripting and Apache Spark. Experience scaling large scale systems in a distributed environment using OneOps, Docker, and Kubernetes. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $185,587/year to $286,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

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.com.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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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.

Responsibilities

  • Assess software requirements, gaps, risks, and change requests, and recommend solutions.
  • Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot scalable, highly available software applications and services.
  • Analyze application performance, logs, metrics, and defects; conduct regression testing and root cause analysis.
  • Build automation for CI/CD, testing, and routine engineering processes.
  • Develop test strategies, select testing tools, and ensure requirements are covered by test cases.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field and 4 years of software engineering experience, or a master's degree and 2 years of experience.
  • Experience developing large-scale backend applications using object-oriented programming and Java.
  • Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines.
  • Experience with Azure SQL, BigQuery, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Azure Cloud, and on-premises environments.
  • Experience with Spring, Apache Camel, Kafka, JMS, IBM MQ, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, and shell scripting.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k), stock purchase plan, and company-paid life insurance
  • Paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, and family care leave
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Education assistance, including company-paid college degrees
  • Company discounts, adoption expense reimbursement, and military service pay

Skills mentioned

JavaMicroservicesREST APIsMicrosoft AzureSQLGoogle BigQueryApache KafkaDockerKubernetesDistributed Systems

About Walmart

More than 60 years ago, Sam Walton opened the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas. Today, we’re a people-led, tech-powered omnichannel retailer dedicated to helping people save money and live better all around the world. Our 2.1 million associates are the engine behind what we do — serving customers and members in communities spanning 19 countries, in stores and clubs, online and through a supply chain built for speed and scale. We’re committed to creating clear pathways for associates to learn, grow and advance. Whether you’re starting your first job or bringing years of experience, you’ll find room to grow, learn new skills and build a career with purpose. We’re proud to invest in our people and foster a culture grounded in respect, integrity, service and striving for excellence. Recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® (2025) and Great Place To Work®-Certified™ , we’re proud of what we’re building together.

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