(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

The Staff, Software Engineer plays a critical role in delivering scalable platform capabilities and driving the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. The role applies cloud-native architecture principles to improve system resilience and agility, integrates AI/ML components to advance intelligent automation, and provides technical leadership and mentoring while collaborating across teams. The engineer improves processes and tools, supports engineering excellence, and contributes to the evolution of platform and product capabilities. The Enterprise Storage Platform team, part of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise and Cloud organization, designs, engineers, and operates next-generation storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications, data platforms, cloud services, and Kubernetes workloads at multi-petabyte scale. The Staff Software Engineer helps define and evolve Walmart’s enterprise storage strategy across block, file, object, and cloud-native storage platforms. This senior technical leader designs resilient storage architectures, drives platform modernization, improves reliability and performance, and enables self-service storage capabilities for engineering teams across Walmart.

Requirements

10+ years of experience designing, engineering, and operating enterprise storage platforms in large-scale enterprise environments.
Deep hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST Data, Cohesity, Dell PowerScale, or similar technologies.
Strong architectural understanding of SAN, NAS, object storage, and distributed storage systems, including FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, and S3-based platforms.
Proven experience supporting multi-petabyte storage environments with demanding availability, scalability, resiliency, and performance requirements.
Strong expertise in storage architecture, performance engineering, workload characterization, capacity planning, and troubleshooting complex production infrastructure issues.
Deep understanding of data protection technologies, including snapshots, replication, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber-resiliency architectures.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or a related area; or 6 years’ 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’ experience in software engineering or a related area.
Background creating inclusive digital experiences, including knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of enterprise-scale storage platforms across block, file, object, and cloud-native storage services.
Define storage platform strategy, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and multi-year modernization initiatives aligned with business growth and platform needs.
Design highly available, resilient, scalable, and secure storage solutions for mission-critical workloads across on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.
Establish data-driven models to balance performance, resiliency, scalability, utilization, and cost across enterprise storage platforms.
Develop AI-powered remediation workflows and operational copilots to improve incident diagnosis, root cause analysis, and infrastructure recovery.
Lead root cause analysis for critical production incidents and implement long-term architectural improvements to prevent recurrence.
Drive the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring, collaborate across teams, and improve engineering processes and tools.