Position Summary...We are looking for a highly technical and customer-focused Senior Partner Engineer (also known as a Solutions Engineer) to help external developers successfully integrate with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem. This role requires a strong engineering foundation, hands-on coding abilities, and the business/product acumen needed to work effectively across engineering, product, and business teams. You will guide partners through onboarding, integration, optimization, and long-term success while contributing directly to platform improvements that drive API adoption and partner satisfaction.
What you'll do...About the Team: We are looking for a highly technical and customer-focused Senior Partner Engineer to help external developers successfully integrate with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem.
**Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for thisposition*What You'll Do: - Work directly with external developers, solution providers, and partners to guide them through integrating with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem
- Troubleshoot integration issues, debug API requests/responses, and provide hands-on technical guidance
- Provide architectural recommendations, best practices, and reference implementations to help partners build reliable, scalable integrations
- Optimize partner resource utilization (compute efficiency, rate limits, data usage, etc.) to ensure performant and cost-effective integration
- Develop tools, dashboards, and metrics to monitor integration health, API usage, error patterns, and adoption trends
- Identify systemic integration gaps and work with engineering and product teams to address them
- Build automation and diagnostics to proactively surface developer friction points or API contract inconsistencies
- Collaborate with Marketplace core engineering teams to design foundational systems, SDKs, and integration patterns that improve API adoption and developer experience
- Provide real-world feedback from external developers to influence API design, documentation, and roadmap priorities
- Contribute to sample apps, libraries, documentation improvements, and developer tooling that streamline partner integration
- Partner with product managers to shape API capabilities, onboarding flows, and developer-facing features
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure partner needs, Marketplace goals, and platform capabilities are aligned
- Advocate for the partner/developer voice across the organization and help prioritize initiatives that reduce friction and improve satisfaction
What You'll Bring: - 6+ years of experience in software engineering, partner engineering, solutions engineering, or developer relations
- Strong hands-on coding skills with proficiency in Java, NodeJS, Rust, or similar backend development languages
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication/authorization flows, and distributed system fundamentals
- Experience debugging complex integration issues involving API gateways, backend services, or data pipelines
- Ability to translate technical details into clear guidance for external developers with varying levels of expertise
- Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling
- Strong product mindset and ability to evaluate tradeoffs between engineering needs, developer experience, and business outcomes
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 duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
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.
Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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 diversity- 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.
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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.
Sunnyvale, California US-11656: The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00 - $234,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-30012: The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00
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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 5 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 1 year's 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
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.
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