Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

. Deliver platform capabilities across infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • United StatesLead💰 $143,000 - $286,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDartJavaJavaScriptMicroservicesPythonRustTypeScriptC++

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver platform capabilities across infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks
Align development efforts with roadmap milestones and domain priorities
Apply cloud-native architecture principles to build scalable, resilient, and agile systems
Drive the full software development lifecycle from coding through deployment, observability, monitoring, and maintenance
Lead infrastructure and tooling development to improve engineering productivity and developer experience
Conduct system design reviews
Build AI-driven applications and intelligent automation features
Integrate AI agents and ML components supporting multi-step reasoning and automation
Apply secure, maintainable, modular, and scalable design patterns
Mentor engineers and junior leaders across teams
Influence architectural and technical decisions and promote standardization and reusability
Enable team members through delegation, documentation, tool selection, and design guidance
Engage product and business stakeholders to define complex user problems and technical requirements
Break work into actionable engineering units
Define and track success metrics and optimize development processes
Contribute to API design and software prototyping
Facilitate correction-of-error reviews
Track industry trends and contribute to technical thought leadership
Own deliverables and drive projects to completion
Make technical decisions while balancing trade-offs and long-term impacts
Adapt to changing technologies and integrate feedback
Collaborate across teams and communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Improve processes, tools, and products through experimentation and continuous improvement
Execute multiple business plans and projects, remove barriers, measure progress, and develop contingency plans
Supervise and develop associates through hiring, training, mentoring, delegation, feedback, and evaluations
Promote company policies, ethics, integrity, compliance, and the Open Door Policy
Evaluate plans and initiatives with business partners and improve efficiency and cost effectiveness
Foster belonging, respect, integrity, customer focus, excellence, and continuous learning

Requirements

What you’ll need

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; or 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
Experience with infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks
Knowledge of CI/CD, SDKs, model runtimes, and feature stores
Cloud-native architecture principles, including microservices, containers, and automation
Software development lifecycle ownership, including coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, observability, monitoring, and maintenance
Experience building AI-driven applications and intelligent automation features
Experience with one or more of JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, Dart, and C++
Experience integrating AI agents and ML components, including platforms such as GitHub Copilot
Knowledge of secure, maintainable, modular, and scalable design patterns
Ability to conduct system design reviews
Ability to define and track engineering success metrics
Preferred: Master's degree and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area
Preferred knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices
Must comply with Walmart's drug-free workplace policy

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pay
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
Live Better U Walmart-paid education benefit, including fully paid tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs
Stock compensation may be included for certain positions