(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, applying cloud-native architecture principles to enhance system resilience and agility. This role involves driving the full software lifecycle, integrating AI/ML solutions, and ensuring technical excellence through rigorous design reviews and continuous improvement. You will mentor engineering teams, collaborate across functions, and translate complex user needs into actionable technical solutions. Your expertise will support innovation, operational efficiency, and the achievement of strategic business objectives within a dynamic and evolving technology environment.
About the team:
The CICD Engineering team within Walmart's Developer Experience & Gen AI organization supports over 25,000 engineers by managing critical platforms at scale. The team operates Walmart’s on-premise GitHub instance and leads its migration to GitHub Cloud. It oversees ArgoCD for GitOps delivery and orchestrates CI/CD workflows through Concord. Maintaining SonarQube ensures enterprise-wide code quality. Positioned at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience, the team drives reliability, performance, and innovation across all engineering pipelines and deployments, enhancing the software development lifecycle throughout Walmart.
What you'll do:

• Deliver platform capabilities including infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks aligned with roadmap milestones and priorities.
• Lead full SDLC activities such as coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Apply cloud-native architecture principles to ensure scalable, resilient, and agile systems.
• Design and deliver automation solutions to eliminate recurring support, reduce developer friction, and drive measurable impact.
• Conduct system design reviews to validate feasibility and ensure alignment with architectural best practices.
• Build AI-driven applications and integrate components to support automation and multi-step reasoning.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and promote engineering excellence through documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and track success metrics using data-driven practices.

What you'll bring:

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture — microservices, containers, automation, and SRE practices (SLI/SLOs, error budgets, on-call) — for scalable, reliable platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java with hands-on experience in Python, TypeScript, Go, Groovy etc — that power GitHub integrations and APIs/webhooks/OIDC, ArgoCD workflows (Helm, Kustomize, YAML), SonarQube code analysis and Concord pipeline automation.
• Proven experience across the full SDLC; coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, maintenance.
• Ability to conduct system design reviews and apply software design patterns to ensure quality and maintainability.
• Data-driven problem-solver with strong collaboration and mentorship skills to continuously elevate team capability, influencing architectural decisions.
• Effective collaboration and communication across technical and business stakeholders.

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.
Sunnyvale, California US-11657: The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-30095: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 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.