(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:
As a Distinguished Software Engineer – Mobile & AI Experiences, you will define the architecture powering Walmart’s next generation of AI-driven experiences across iOS and Android. You’ll provide system-level leadership spanning native clients, experience services, APIs, and AI platform integrations. Operating across multiple platforms and teams, you’ll establish scalable architecture, reliability frameworks, and engineering standards that enable Walmart to rapidly deliver intelligent experiences to millions of customers. You’ll bridge long-term AI and mobile strategy with execution, while mentoring Principal and Staff engineers and influencing technical direction across the organization.
About the team:
Our team builds AI-powered shopping experiences that make shopping at Walmart more intuitive, personalized, and actionable. Our work spans native iOS and Android experiences, experience services, AI orchestration, and commerce platforms. We’re focused on making AI useful throughout the shopping journey—from discovery and decision-making to planning, purchasing, and agentic actions. We operate at the intersection of mobile, AI, and commerce, creating reusable platforms and architectural foundations that enable teams to deliver innovative AI experiences reliably and rapidly at Walmart scale.
What you'll do:

• Own architecture across iOS, Android, experience services, APIs, and AI integrations.
• Define scalable patterns for AI-native, dynamic, multimodal, and agentic mobile experiences.
• Establish architecture and standards across Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Compose, and supporting backend services.
• Drive reliability, performance, observability, security, and scalability across the end-to-end experience stack.
• Translate long-term product and AI strategy into durable technical architecture and execution.
• Lead complex initiatives spanning mobile, backend, AI/ML, and platform teams.
• Identify and resolve systemic architectural constraints across multiple platforms.
• Mentor Principal and Staff engineers and influence engineering strategy across the organization.

What you'll bring:

• Extensive experience architecting large-scale native iOS and Android applications and supporting distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Swift/SwiftUI and/or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, with strong cross-platform architectural depth.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems expertise, including APIs, service architecture, real-time systems, and cloud platforms.
• Proven experience defining architecture spanning client, backend, and platform boundaries.
• Deep understanding of mobile performance, reliability, application lifecycle, networking, and observability.
• Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, streaming, multimodal, or agentic systems is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated technical influence across multiple organizations and platforms.
• Track record of mentoring Principal and Staff engineers.

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-11656: The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas US-10929: The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 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 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 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 4 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...

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.