(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:
The Principal, Software Engineer leads the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, including cloud-native architectures and AI/ML frameworks, to support Walmart’s evolving technology landscape.  You will be a driving force in the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices, leveraging AI coding agents to accelerate development velocity, improve code quality, and unlock new capabilities for the team. You are as comfortable designing resilient backend services in Java and Spring Boot as you are crafting smooth, responsive associate-facing experiences in React Native. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product, design teams to deliver outcomes at scale.
About the team:
The Associate and Agentic Experiences team within People Tech & Services delivers exceptional digital solutions for a global Walmart associate community. Positioned at the intersection of technology and human impact, the team develops systems supporting compensation and benefits management. Leading a modernization initiative, it simplifies complex user journeys and unifies global solutions into a seamless digital platform. AI integration enhances how associates engage with pay and benefits. The team prioritizes scalable development, user-centric design, and impactful work that improves everyday experiences worldwide, fostering collaboration and innovation across technical and business domains.
What you'll do:
Technical Leadership

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for systems across the Associate and Agentic experiences domain
• Lead design reviews, architecture decisions, and cross-team technical alignment

Full-Stack Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs 
• Build and optimize mobile-first associate experiences using React Native
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex features, from API to UI components to observability

AI Agents & Agentic Development

• Build  AI agents that automate, augment, orchestrate engineering and product workflows
• Champion the use of AI coding agents to improve throughput and quality

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Mentor and grow senior and staff engineers 
• Participate in and lead incident reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements

What you'll bring:

• Extensive experience in cloud-native architecture principles.
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and reusable tooling.
• Strong proficiency in AI/ML integration and building intelligent software systems using languages such as Python, Java.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building AI agents — including at least one production deployment
• Experience using AI agents to write, generate, or review code (agentic coding workflows) 
• Expertise in driving full software development lifecycle including CI/CD, testing, and incident response.
• Demonstrated skills in technical solution design, requirements analysis, and problem solving.
• Effective collaboration and mentorship capabilities to guide engineering teams.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in engineering processes and products.

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.
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 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 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...

805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, 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.