(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart•Hoboken, NJ

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a force-multiplying technical leader who sets architectural direction across multiple teams, resolves difficult ambiguous technical problems, and raises engineering standards. You will work with significant autonomy, partnering with Directors, Principal Engineers, and Product leadership to deliver the business roadmap while mentoring Senior Engineers and ensuring technical excellence. The Fulfillment Engineering team is a globally distributed group building and operating Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) for Walmart’s expanding U.S. eCommerce Fulfillment Center network. Its platforms support High Velocity Fulfillment Centers and Next Generation Automated Fulfillment Centers. The team is advancing a shared, cloud-first, distributed-systems platform to enable reuse, improve reliability, and deliver fulfillment capabilities at scale. Fulfillment Centers also support Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS). The role owns technical architecture and roadmaps for a critical platform domain spanning services and teams, and leads the design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed, event-driven Java systems. It drives cross-team architecture decisions, reliability and operational excellence, modernization, and technical strategy in partnership with product and engineering stakeholders. The position is based at 221 River St, Hoboken, New Jersey. The annual salary range is $132,000–$264,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses and, for certain positions, stock. Walmart also describes health, financial, paid-time-off, education, and other benefits.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent depth; preferably in Java, with increasing technical scope and impact.
Expert-level experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems such as Kafka at enterprise scale.
Deep hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores, including schema and data-model decisions affecting downstream consumers.
Proven ownership of production systems at scale, including reliability strategy, complex cross-service incident diagnosis, and performance tuning.
Exceptional system-design skills and experience architecting solutions used by multiple teams.
Experience mentoring Senior Engineers and influencing technical direction across teams in fast-paced Agile environments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting architecture and design to senior technical and business stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to use AI tooling or agents to accelerate development, troubleshooting, and team-wide productivity.
Minimum qualification: a bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and four years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, six years of software engineering or related experience.

Nice To Haves

Deep Azure experience, including Cosmos DB at scale, and Kafka expertise across high-throughput, multi-team systems.
A track record of designing and operating enterprise distributed systems with documented tradeoffs across availability, consistency, latency, and cost.
Strong supply-chain or fulfillment domain expertise, including WMS, WES, or fulfillment-center operations.
A master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and two years of software engineering or related experience.
Knowledge of inclusive digital experiences, WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture and roadmap for a critical platform domain spanning multiple services and teams.
Lead the design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed, event-driven systems using Java.
Drive cross-team architecture decisions and document tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, latency, and cost.
Identify and address systemic reliability, scalability, and performance risks before they become incidents.
Set operational-excellence standards for telemetry, alerting, incident response, and blameless root-cause analysis.
Lead technical-debt reduction and modernization initiatives across teams and services.
Mentor Senior Engineers and raise engineering quality through design reviews, architecture reviews, and best practices.
Partner with Product, Principal Engineers, and senior stakeholders to turn ambiguous, multi-team business problems into technical strategy and milestones.

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k).
Stock purchase plan.
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.
Walmart-paid Live Better U education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
Performance-based annual or quarterly bonuses; stock may be included for certain positions.