Distinguished Software Engineer – AI/ML Engineer, Agentic Systems, Site Reliability Engineering

Walmart

. Lead technical development of next-generation agentic AI systems and intelligent automation for mission-critical reliability .

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $169,000 - $338,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, AI/ML Engineering, and Platform Engineering, with a strong focus on developing autonomous systems, machine learning platforms, and intelligent monitoring solutions. Proven ability to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability in mission-critical environments.

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Site Reliability EngineeringMachine Learning EngineeringCloud EngineeringAI/ML Systems DevelopmentTechnical Mentorship

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Hard Skills

Machine Learning AlgorithmsTensorFlowPyTorchDistributed SystemsInfrastructure as CodeMLOpsNLPComputer VisionKubernetesDocker

Soft Skills

Technical CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationMentorshipTechnical OwnershipKnowledge Sharing

Tools & Technologies

CI/CD PipelinesAPM ToolsService Mesh ArchitecturesAPI GatewaysSelf-Service ML Deployment Platforms

Industry Keywords

Mission-Critical SystemsHigh-Traffic Consumer-Facing SystemsE-CommercePerformance OptimizationChaos Engineering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMicroservicesPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead technical development of next-generation agentic AI systems and intelligent automation for mission-critical reliability
Architect and implement machine learning platforms and autonomous agents for monitoring, prediction, and automatic issue resolution
Design and develop multi-agent orchestration platforms for incident response, capacity planning, and performance optimization
Build intelligent observability and monitoring systems using ML-driven anomaly detection and predictive analytics
Develop self-healing infrastructure platforms
Design and build tools to improve reliability, latency, availability, and scalability across Walmart technology systems
Architect and implement fault-tolerant systems across Walmart’s hybrid cloud infrastructure
Collaborate with engineering teams and leadership to improve MTTD and MTTR
Define SLOs and build SLIs with service owners to ensure critical systems meet SLAs
Perform complex troubleshooting and analysis of large-scale distributed systems
Partner with engineering organizations to deliver autonomous reliability solutions using ML, NLP, and computer vision
Drive development of MLOps and AIOps platforms
Innovate in agentic AI technologies for SRE, including LLMs, reinforcement learning, multimodal AI, and federated learning
Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated deployment, validation, rollback, observability, and performance monitoring
Establish reusable SRE infrastructure, intelligent monitoring platforms, and developer productivity tools
Provide technical mentorship and guidance through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need

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; OR 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
12+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, AI/ML Engineering, or Platform Engineering
Proven track record as a senior individual contributor in SRE, AI/ML, or Platform Engineering
Deep experience with mission-critical systems and KPI expertise in MTTD, MTTR, availability, model performance, and autonomous system reliability
Expert-level AI/ML engineering experience, including machine learning algorithms, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and production ML system deployment at scale
Advanced experience with agentic AI systems, multi-agent frameworks, autonomous decision-making systems, LLM-based agents, and agent orchestration platforms
Comprehensive Site Reliability Engineering expertise, including Service Management and Performance and Capacity Engineering for AI/ML systems
Expert-level cloud engineering experience with Azure, GCP, AWS, cloud-native AI/ML services, Kubernetes, Docker, and serverless architectures
Deep observability and monitoring expertise, including distributed tracing, metrics collection and alerting, log aggregation and analysis, APM tools, and AI-driven anomaly detection
Platform Engineering experience with developer platforms, Infrastructure as Code, service mesh architectures, API gateways, microservices platforms, self-service ML deployment platforms, and developer productivity tools
Experience with mission-critical distributed systems serving millions of concurrent users
Experience with enterprise-scale SRE implementations
Experience with complex multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments
Technical thought leadership and influence in AI/ML architecture, SRE methodologies, and platform engineering strategies
Strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering organizations
Excellent technical communication skills
Mentorship and knowledge-sharing experience
High degree of technical ownership and accountability
Strongly preferred: large-scale retail, e-commerce, or high-traffic consumer-facing systems experience
Preferred: MLOps/model lifecycle management, NLP, computer vision, edge computing, streaming/event-driven architectures, advanced security, chaos engineering, performance optimization, and open-source contributions
Ability to work on-site at the Sunnyvale, California location is implied by the listed home office and primary location

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance-based bonus awards
Medical, vision and dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO, including sick leave
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
Live Better U Walmart-paid education benefits, including high school completion, bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates
Tuition, books, and fees completely paid for through Live Better U
Stock (additional compensation for certain positions)