Staff, Software Engineer

Description

Position Summary...

Responsibilities

• As a Staff Software Engineer , you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling highly available, enterprise-grade platforms that power Walmart's technology ecosystem. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influence architecture decisions, drive engineering best practices, and deliver innovative solutions that support business growth and operational excellence. This role requires a strong combination of hands-on software development expertise, architectural leadership, and the ability to mentor engineers while working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Drive the technical vision and influence product strategy, architecture, and roadmap development.
• Design, develop, and implement large-scale, distributed, and highly scalable applications and platforms.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains.
• Architect and develop high-performance, high-throughput systems capable of supporting large transaction volumes.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Business teams to define and deliver innovative technology solutions.
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead resolution efforts for complex production and business-critical issues.
• Establish software engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Ensure software solutions meet quality, security, compliance, and performance requirements.
• Oversee testing strategies, maintenance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent by providing technical guidance, coaching, and code reviews.
• Champion Agile development methodologies and contribute to continuous delivery and DevOps practices.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field and 12+ years of software development experience; OR equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with mandatory, hands-on Java expertise in developing retail or large-scale enterprise applications.
• 8+ years of hands-on Java experience building projects for large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of working expertise in Python.
• 8+ years of Strong expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including data modeling, schema design, and query optimization.
• Hands-on expertise with messaging and queuing solutions (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Google Pub/Sub).
• Hands-on expertise with distributed caching solutions (such as Redis or Memcached).
• 8+ years of experience designing and architecting highly scalable, distributed, and high-performing applications.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with two or more open-source or cloud technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Solr, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Spanner, or similar platforms.
• 4+ years of experience developing and architecting high-transaction, high-throughput systems.
• 8+ years of experience building RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native application development and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading large, complex technical projects from concept through production deployment.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience with Scala.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile development environments across geographically distributed teams.
• 2+ years of experience with Hadoop, Hive, GCP, Spark Streaming, or related big data technologies.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, data-intensive applications, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across organizations.
• 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. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds 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.

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.