(USA) Staff, Software Engineer
About The Position
The Staff, Software Engineer leads the delivery of scalable platform capabilities across the full software development lifecycle, from design and coding through testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. The role applies cloud-native architecture, AI/ML integration, software design patterns, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement to build resilient, modular solutions. It also provides technical leadership and mentoring, collaborates across teams, and leads large, complex, cross-functional projects by translating requirements into technical solutions. This position is part of Walmart's Advertising Technology group and Sponsored Ads engineering team. The team builds high-performance ad-serving and data platforms that handle large volumes of requests, user activity, and transaction data. The work includes next-generation ad relevance, retrieval, ranking, and ML infrastructure, with responsibility for critical components and influence over architecture and technology choices. The role partners across Walmart Connect to deliver performance, reliability, and impact at scale.
Requirements
- The role summary states 8+ years of software engineering experience and a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- The listed minimum qualifications provide either a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 4 years of software engineering or related experience, or 6 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Strong experience in AdTech, Search, relevance, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise building highly available, fault-tolerant, cloud-native services using microservices, containers, APIs, and automation.
- Hands-on proficiency in Java or another object-oriented language, Spring, NoSQL, Kafka, Spark, and modern data platforms.
- Experience partnering with Data Science teams to productionize and serve ML models in real time.
- Exceptional analytical reasoning, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated architecture leadership, mentorship, communication, collaboration, and commitment to engineering excellence.
Nice To Haves
- A 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 implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies.
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices and experience integrating digital accessibility into products and services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of large-scale software, ML infrastructure, and platform capabilities.
- Translate product and business strategy into scalable, resilient, maintainable architectures and long-term technical roadmaps.
- Own coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
- Drive system design reviews, architectural decisions, and root cause analysis for complex production and reliability issues.
- Build cloud-native platforms, ML frameworks, model-serving capabilities, and AI-driven applications supporting automation and intelligent workflows.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, raise engineering standards, and partner across product, data science, and engineering teams to deliver high-performance solutions at scale.
- Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements and translating them into technical solutions.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- 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 usable for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Walmart-paid Live Better U education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
