(USA) Staff, Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help design, build, and evolve Walmart’s Tier 0 order service platform, a critical source of truth for order data across the enterprise. You will lead the design of highly scalable, low-latency distributed systems serving customer-facing and internal teams. The role provides technical leadership across architecture, platform modernization, reliability, search, indexing, and event-driven systems, and drives complex cross-team initiatives from design through production. You will mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, influence long-term technical direction, and partner with product and platform teams to deliver reliable solutions at Walmart scale. The Order Service team builds and operates Walmart’s Tier-0 order search platform. Its services power Purchase History, order status, fulfillment, returns, marketplace integrations, and other post-purchase experiences. The team develops large-scale distributed systems focused on high availability, low latency, reliability, and performance, and drives modernization across search and indexing, event-driven architecture, cloud infrastructure, observability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience with Java and Spring/Spring Boot, building scalable, reliable backend services.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, performance, concurrency, and large-scale architectures.
- Proven technical and project leadership, driving initiatives from design through production.
- Strong mentorship skills and ability to raise engineering standards.
- Track record of innovation, simplification, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent problem-solving and deep debugging skills for complex production issues.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, including the ability to drive discussions, align stakeholders, and influence decisions.
- Ability to lead architecture and design reviews and clearly communicate trade-offs.
- Strong ownership and execution in ambiguous, high-impact environments.
- 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 6 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
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.
- Background creating inclusive digital experiences and knowledge of implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and Walmart accessibility standards and guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, low-latency, resilient Order Service systems.
- Drive architecture and technical direction across distributed systems, search, event-driven platforms, reliability, and modernization.
- Own critical services end to end, from design and implementation through production readiness and operations.
- Partner across product and engineering teams to deliver commerce, fulfillment, marketplace, and returns capabilities.
- Improve scalability, availability, performance, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership, influence decisions, and establish engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and technical growth.
- Lead root-cause analysis and drive long-term reliability improvements.
- Evaluate and adopt modern technologies and architectural patterns.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- Paid time off, including sick leave
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Short-term and 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
- Walmart-paid education through Live Better U, including tuition, books, and fees
- Annual or quarterly performance bonuses
- Stock compensation for certain positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
