Staff, Software Engineer - Full Stack
About The Position
Join Walmart Global Tech as a Staff Software Engineer in the Growth Tech Marketplace organization, serving as a technical backbone for the cross-border commerce platform. The role designs cross-service architectures, establishes engineering standards across squads, and translates complex business challenges into scalable production systems supporting international trade. The team builds reusable technology for customer acquisition, onboarding, and merchant empowerment, while optimizing tariffs and assortment in line with Walmart’s Everyday Low Cost philosophy. It delivers customized experiences across stores, mobile apps, and websites. The position leads the technical design of cross-border trade systems, including seller onboarding, order orchestration, compliance, and payments. It drives engineering standards and technical alignment across teams; partners with product and engineering leadership on feasibility, risks, and delivery plans; and owns production readiness, reliability, and operational practices. It also mentors senior engineers and promotes AI-augmented development. The role is based at Walmart’s Sunnyvale, California location. The annual salary range is $143,000–$286,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses and potential stock compensation.
Requirements
- Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of experience in software engineering or a related area; or Option 2: 6 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
- Deep hands-on experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architecture, message queuing, and cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes/WCNP and GCP/Azure.
- Ability to reason across services and teams, identify cross-cutting concerns such as shared data models, consistency guarantees, API contracts, and observability, and make holistic design decisions.
- Track record of driving technical alignment across multiple squads without direct authority through communication, credibility, and consensus-building.
- Strong communication and ability to build consensus on engineering standards, architectural decisions, and delivery trade-offs.
- Working familiarity with e-commerce or marketplace challenges, including seller integrations, order lifecycle management, international compliance, multi-currency handling, and cross-border logistics.
- Experience owning SLOs, leading incident retrospectives, building observability into system design through metrics, logging, and tracing, and addressing technical debt proactively.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
- Experience in e-commerce or marketplace environments.
- Knowledge of creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
- Knowledge of assistive technologies and digital accessibility best practices, including integrating accessibility into products and services in alignment with Walmart standards and guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical design for cross-border trade systems, including seller onboarding, order orchestration, compliance, and payments infrastructure.
- Establish reusable, reliable, observable, globally scalable architectural patterns across multiple squads.
- Define and drive adoption of coding standards, testing practices, SDLC compliance, quality gates, and API design principles across cross-border trade engineering teams.
- Raise engineering standards through documentation, design reviews, and active mentorship.
- Partner with product managers and engineering managers to assess roadmap feasibility, surface technical risks, and guide build-versus-buy-versus-partner decisions.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into scoped, executable engineering plans.
- Lead production readiness reviews and define and own SLOs and SLAs for critical cross-border services.
- Drive observability, incident-response preparedness, and capacity planning to support platform resilience and uptime.
- Mentor and develop Senior Software Engineers (L5).
- Lead architecture working groups and communities of practice.
- Champion AI-augmented development tools such as Wibey and GitHub Copilot within cross-border trade squads.
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- Paid time off, including sick leave and PTO/PPTO
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Company-paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Family care leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees covered for eligible programs
- Performance-based incentive awards and annual or quarterly bonuses
- Stock compensation for certain positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
