(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

3d • $110,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

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 Walmart associates globally. The engineer will investigate and resolve complex technical challenges, improve performance, and develop AI-powered automation to strengthen platform reliability and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on position involving coding, troubleshooting, infrastructure optimization, and production problem resolution.

The GTA team develops and operates enterprise-scale applications for global workforce management. Its engineering priorities include high availability, operational excellence, platform modernization, and intelligent automation. The role works closely with application development, infrastructure, database, and platform engineering teams, and includes end-to-end ownership of technical problems, from investigation through implementation and validation.

The position is based at 508 SW 8th St, Bentonville, Arkansas. The annual salary range is $110,000 to $220,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses; stock may also be included for certain positions.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, production engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or a related area; the minimum qualifications also allow a bachelor's degree in a specified or related field plus 4 years of software engineering or 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.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related area and 2 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and accessible product development.

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 mean time to recovery, and increase platform availability.
• Manage, troubleshoot, configure, and optimize Kubernetes pods and resources within Walmart Cloud Native Platform (WCNP).
• Investigate pod failures, CPU and memory utilization, scaling issues, and deployment failures.
• Improve resource allocation, workload performance, and cloud infrastructure efficiency; support deployments, infrastructure changes, and cloud-native platform optimization.
• Analyze and optimize database queries, indexes, execution plans, and application database interactions, with a focus on PostgreSQL and CosmosDB.
• Troubleshoot database performance, connection pooling, locking, and resource contention; implement tuning and performance improvements for high-volume workloads.
• Develop scripts and automated processes for database health monitoring and optimization.
• Participate in and resolve critical production incidents through hands-on technical investigation.
• Perform root cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and eliminate recurring problems.
• 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 solve 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 best 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.
• Take end-to-end ownership of technical problems, 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 leave, jury duty leave, and 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.
• Live Better U, a Walmart-paid education benefit program for eligible full-time and part-time associates; tuition, books, and fees are covered for eligible programs.
• Annual or quarterly performance bonuses; stock may be included for certain positions.

What This Job Offers

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