(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

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About The Position

The Cassandra platform supports hundreds of production clusters across critical retail and eCommerce systems. This Staff-level role combines hands-on engineering with cross-team technical influence, focusing on automation, architecture, reliability, and AI-enabled operational improvements. The Cassandra platform team develops scalable, resilient capabilities and works with cloud, application, and platform engineering teams to support Walmart’s business and engineering goals.

The role includes participating in on-call support, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and mentoring engineers while remaining involved in technical execution. The position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager, Cassandra Platform.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience building backend or platform software using Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting.
• Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production environments.
• Ability to identify manual processes and replace them with scalable automation.
• Experience participating in on-call support and incident response.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, cloud, and reliability teams.

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.
• Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrading, decommissioning, and monitoring Cassandra clusters.
• Develop internal tools and self-service capabilities to reduce repetitive operational work.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and lead production incident response and root cause analysis.
• Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across a large-scale distributed database environment.
• Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics, alert quality, and engineering productivity.
• Drive automation strategy and architecture improvements across distributed database environments.
• Influence reliability standards and operational best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with cloud, application, and platform engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on in technical execution.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• 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 leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.

What This Job Offers

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