Staff, Software Engineer - Full Stack

Description

Position Summary...

Join Walmart Global Tech as a Staff Software Engineer and become the technical backbone of our cross-border commerce platform. In this role within our Growth Tech Marketplace organization, you'll design cross-service architectures, set engineering standards across squads, and translate complex business challenges into scalable, production-grade systems that power international trade at Walmart scale.

About Team:

Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cross-Service Architecture & System Design
• Own the end-to-end technical design of cross-border trade systems — including seller onboarding, order orchestration, compliance, and payments infrastructure — establishing reusable architectural patterns across multiple squads that are reliable, observable, and built to scale globally.
• Set and Enforce Engineering Standards
• Define and drive adoption of coding standards, testing practices, SDLC compliance (SonarQube, Snyk, Gatekeeper quality gates), and API design principles across CBT engineering teams — raising the collective bar through documentation, design reviews, and active mentorship.
• Partner with Product & Engineering Leadership on Technical Feasibility
• Collaborate with PMs and Engineering Managers to assess roadmap feasibility, surface technical risks early, and guide build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions — translating ambiguous business requirements into well-scoped, executable engineering plans.
• Own Non-Functional Requirements & Production Readiness
• Lead production readiness reviews; define and own SLOs/SLAs for critical cross-border services; drive observability, incident response preparedness, and capacity planning across the platform to ensure resilience and uptime at Walmart scale.
• Mentor Senior Engineers & Drive a High-Performance Engineering Culture
• Actively mentor and grow Senior Software Engineers (L5); lead architecture working groups and communities of practice; champion AI-augmented development (Wibey, GitHub Copilot) as a team multiplier within CBT squads.
• What you'll bring:
• Distributed Systems & Cloud-Native Architecture Expertise
• Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems — microservices, event-driven architecture, message queuing, and cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes/WCNP, GCP/Azure) — ideally in e-commerce or marketplace environments.
• System Thinking Across Service Boundaries
• Ability to reason across multiple services and teams simultaneously — identifying cross-cutting concerns (shared data models, consistency guarantees, API contracts, observability) and making holistic design decisions that improve the Technical Leadership & Multi-Squad Influence
• Track record of driving technical alignment across multiple squads without direct authority — through strong communication, credibility, and the ability to build consensus on engineering standards, architectural decisions, and delivery trade-offs.
• Commerce Domain Knowledge
• Working familiarity with e-commerce or marketplace platform challenges — seller integrations, order lifecycle management, international compliance, multi-currency handling, and cross-border logistics — enabling sound, domain-aware architectural decision
• Operational Excellence & Reliability Mindset
• Strong orientation toward production quality — experience owning SLOs, leading incident retrospectives, building observability into system design (metrics, logging, tracing), and proactively addressing technical debt before it becomes customer impact.
• 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.