Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...
We are looking for a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and operational excellence of Walmart's API-driven platforms and cloud-native services. You will join a small, nimble, and talented team focused on incubating and rapidly scaling innovative systems within Walmart's massive ecosystem.

The ideal candidate thrives in a startup-like culture-comfortable navigating ambiguity, pushing technical boundaries, and enabling teams to move with both speed and purpose-while simultaneously building systems that scale to support millions of users and enterprise-wide workloads.

What you'll do:
Technical Leadership

• End-to-end design and development of REST APIs, internal platform services, and microservices-based systems.
• Establish coding and design standards across teams (API patterns, schema design, logging/observability, scalability patterns).
• Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve system performance, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, perform design reviews, and mentor senior level engineers.

API & Backend Engineering

• Build scalable, secure, low-latency REST APIs using JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Python or related backend technologies.
• Own API lifecycle including design, deployment, versioning, monitoring, documentation, and governance.
• Implement robust authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth, JWT, service-to-service auth, etc.).
• Drive performance-focused code optimization across services.

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

• Design and deploy containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud orchestration systems.
• Lead efforts in improving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Kubernetes clusters and API-based workloads.
• Collaborate with other technical staff to build mature CI/CD pipelines, automated rollouts, and observability (OpenObserve, Prometheus, Grafana).

Data & Storage

• Design data models and scalable access patterns for SQL and NoSQL databases ((SQL Server/Postgres, Azure Cosmos DB/Cassandra).
• Improve DB performance via indexing, partitioning, schema tuning, and caching strategies.
• Design scalable data access patterns for microservices.

Performance Optimization & Caching

• Use Redis or Memcached to design distributed caching strategies.
• Improve system performance through:
  • Cache design & invalidation strategies
  • Hot-path optimization
  • Profiling & instrumentation
  • Reducing API latency and improving throughput
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks across compute, I/O, and data layers.

Operational Excellence

• Drive incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and long-term resiliency improvements.
• Ensure services are well-instrumented: metrics, tracing, SLIs/SLOs, and health checks.
• Champion best practices in testing, quality assurance, and reliability engineering.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems or API platforms.
• Strong expertise in REST API design, Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript, and distributed systems architecture.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (pods, deployments, services, ingress controllers, Helm, autoscaling).
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases and designing scalable schemas.
• Expertise with Docker and modern containerization workflows.
• Strong understanding of API infrastructure: gateways, load balancers, service meshes, CI/CD, authN/authZ, rate limiting.
• Strong experience
• Proven track record influencing technical roadmaps across multiple teams.
• Ability to lead large initiatives with minimal oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or Walmart's internal cloud environment).
• Strong Python experience for scripting, tooling, backend services, or data workflows.
• Full-stack experience with React (building dashboards, internal tools, developer portals, or admin UIs).
• Robust experience support large scale internet (site facing) systems.
• Experience building GraphQL APIs or hybrid REST/GraphQL platforms.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Streams).
• Experience building internal and external developer platforms, SDKs, or API frameworks.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tools for refactoring, code reviews, test generation, runtime monitoring.
• Strong mentorship and cross-team communication skills.

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's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer 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 great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and it's 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.
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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

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...

809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, 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.