(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer

Walmart•Sunnyvale, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Distinguished Software Engineer – AI Shopping Experiences, you will provide system-level technical leadership for the platforms powering Walmart’s next generation of AI-driven shopping. You’ll own critical architectural decisions across mobile, AI, and supporting platform capabilities, translating long-term domain strategy into scalable enterprise systems. Operating with significant autonomy, you’ll establish architecture and engineering standards, drive reliability and scalability across multiple platforms, and ensure our AI experiences can evolve rapidly while serving millions of customers. You’ll influence domain strategy and mentor Principal and Staff engineers across the organization. Our team is building the technology behind Walmart’s AI-powered shopping experiences, making shopping more intuitive, personalized, and actionable. We bring AI throughout the customer journey—from discovery and decision-making to planning, purchasing, and agentic actions. Our work spans customer experiences, mobile platforms, AI orchestration, and commerce systems. We operate at the intersection of rapidly evolving AI technology and Walmart’s massive consumer scale, creating reusable platforms and architectural foundations that enable teams across the organization to safely and rapidly deliver AI-powered experiences.

Requirements

Extensive experience architecting and operating large-scale, enterprise-grade consumer platforms and distributed systems.
Deep expertise across multiple technology domains, including mobile, backend, platform architecture, and AI systems.
Proven ability to own architecture and technical strategy spanning multiple platforms and organizations.
Strong experience designing for reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
Track record of translating ambiguous business strategy into durable technical architecture.
Demonstrated influence at senior engineering and organizational leadership levels.
Experience mentoring Principal and Staff engineers and developing technical leaders.
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.
8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, agentic systems, or AI platforms is highly desirable.
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.
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.
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.

Responsibilities

Own system-level architecture across critical AI shopping platforms and experiences.
Translate long-term domain strategy into scalable architectures, platforms, and execution plans.
Establish enterprise-grade patterns for reliability, scalability, observability, integration, and performance.
Drive architectural decisions and implementation standards across multiple platforms and teams.
Identify and resolve systemic technical constraints before they limit product or organizational scale.
Provide deep technical leadership across mobile, AI, backend, and distributed systems.
Lead architecture for complex cross-domain initiatives and influence enterprise technology decisions.
Mentor Principal and Staff engineers and raise technical leadership across the organization.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
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 expense reimbursement
Surrogacy expense reimbursement
PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) 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.