(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

16h

About The Position

Walmart Global Tech is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer for its Global Time & Attendance (GTA) team. The role focuses on technical execution, optimization, and reliability of mission-critical applications supporting millions of Walmart associates globally. The engineer will investigate and resolve complex technical challenges, improve performance, and develop AI-powered automation to increase platform reliability and operational efficiency. The position involves direct work in coding, troubleshooting, infrastructure optimization, and production problem resolution.

The GTA team develops and operates enterprise-scale applications supporting global workforce management. Its engineering priorities include high availability, operational excellence, platform modernization, and intelligent automation.

The engineer will work across applications, infrastructure, and databases to resolve production issues; optimize Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads; tune PostgreSQL and CosmosDB performance; participate in incident, problem, and change management; and build software, scripts, APIs, and AI-assisted automation. The role also collaborates with application, infrastructure, database, and platform engineering teams, contributes technical improvements and standards, and takes end-to-end ownership of technical problems.

The position is based at 508 SW 8th St, Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart describes competitive pay, performance-based bonuses, and benefits that include health coverage, financial benefits, paid time off, education support, and other programs. The stated annual salary range is $110,000 to $220,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses and, for certain positions, stock.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, production engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or a related software engineering area; the minimum qualifications also allow a bachelor's degree in a listed or related field with 4 years of related experience.
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed enterprise applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, pod management, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with database performance tuning and query optimization.
• Software development proficiency in Java, Python, Spring Boot, or similar technologies.
• Practical experience with ITIL Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
• Experience developing scripts, automation, and operational engineering tools.
• Strong understanding of microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and application performance.
• Ability to independently investigate, implement, test, and deploy technical solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience optimizing databases, including PostgreSQL and CosmosDB.
• Experience with Walmart Cloud Native Platform (WCNP).
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and observability tools.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience using GenAI, LLMs, or AI-assisted tools for software development and operational automation.
• Knowledge of SRE principles, SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience with high-volume, mission-critical enterprise applications.
• A 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.
• Knowledge of creating inclusive digital experiences, WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across applications, infrastructure, and databases.
• Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement sustainable technical solutions.
• Configure and improve monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational dashboards.
• Implement reliability improvements to reduce recurring incidents, improve MTTR, and increase platform availability.
• Manage, troubleshoot, configure, and optimize Kubernetes pods and containerized workloads in Walmart Cloud Native Platform (WCNP).
• Investigate pod failures, resource utilization, scaling issues, and deployment failures.
• Improve resource allocation, workload performance, and cloud infrastructure efficiency; support application deployments and infrastructure changes.
• Analyze and optimize database queries, indexes, execution plans, and application database interactions, particularly for PostgreSQL and CosmosDB.
• Troubleshoot database performance, connection pooling, locking, and resource contention; implement database tuning improvements.
• Develop scripts and automated processes for database health monitoring and optimization.
• Participate in critical production incidents, perform hands-on investigation and root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Execute and validate production changes following ITIL-aligned change management practices.
• Improve operational procedures, deployment readiness, and production stability.
• Write and maintain code, scripts, APIs, and automation tools to address operational challenges.
• Build AI-assisted solutions for log analysis, incident investigation, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
• Automate repetitive production activities, system health checks, and remediation workflows.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.
• Apply software engineering practices to improve application maintainability, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, database, and platform engineering teams to diagnose and resolve complex issues.
• Contribute code changes, performance fixes, and infrastructure improvements; share technical expertise, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering standards.
• Own technical problems end to end, from investigation through implementation and validation.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U Walmart-paid education benefit for eligible full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
• Performance-based bonuses; stock may be included for certain positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior