Staff Software Engineer

About the role

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

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.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That is what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We are a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world’s leading retailers who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a distinguished career in tech, gain new skills and experience for every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate on a scale, impact millions, and reimagine the future of retail. Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it is fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

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...

1345 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.