Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • $143,000 - $286,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer delivers platform capabilities within a sub-organization or technical area, including infrastructure, tooling, and machine-learning frameworks. The role aligns development with roadmap milestones and domain priorities and applies cloud-native architecture principles to build scalable, resilient, and agile systems. It owns the full software development lifecycle, from coding and testing through CI/CD deployment, observability, monitoring, and maintenance, while developing infrastructure and tools that improve engineering productivity and developer experience.

The position builds AI-driven applications and intelligent automation features, integrates AI agents and machine-learning components, and applies software design principles to create secure, maintainable, modular, and scalable solutions. It contributes to API design and prototyping, conducts system design reviews, and uses metrics and correction-of-error reviews to improve engineering quality. The role also mentors engineers and junior leaders, influences technical and architectural decisions, and collaborates with product, business, and engineering stakeholders to define problems, requirements, and success measures.

The position drives business plans and projects, removes obstacles, measures performance, and supports associate development through selection, training, mentoring, delegation, and performance feedback. It promotes company policies, ethics, integrity, inclusion, and continuous improvement, and works with stakeholders to ensure business needs are met. Walmart describes its culture as focused on respect for the individual, acting with integrity, serving customers and members, and striving for excellence.

The position is based at Walmart’s primary location at 1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, California. The annual salary range is $143,000 to $286,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses and, for certain positions, stock.

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.

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.
• Background creating inclusive digital experiences and knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and accessibility standards and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver platform capabilities, infrastructure, tooling, and machine-learning frameworks aligned with roadmap milestones and domain priorities.
• Apply cloud-native architecture principles to achieve scalability, resilience, and agility across systems.
• Own the software development lifecycle, including coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, observability, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Develop infrastructure and tools that accelerate engineering productivity, improve developer experience, and support platform goals.
• Conduct system design reviews to assess feasibility, quality, project alignment, and architectural best practices.
• Build AI-driven applications and intelligent automation features, and integrate AI agents and machine-learning components.
• Mentor engineers and junior leaders, promote technical growth and psychological safety, and support continuous learning.
• Influence architectural and technical decisions, advocating for standardization, reusability, and long-term sustainability.
• Support team members through delegation, documentation, developer-tool selection, and design guidance.
• Work with product and business stakeholders to define complex user problems and turn them into actionable technical requirements.
• Break work into well-scoped units ready for engineering execution and define and track success metrics.
• Contribute to API design and software prototyping to validate solutions and gather early feedback.
• Facilitate correction-of-error reviews to improve code quality and reduce recurring defects.
• Stay current with industry trends and share knowledge through documentation, tool evaluations, and internal learning.
• Take responsibility for deliverables, resolve issues, and drive projects to completion while balancing technical trade-offs and long-term impacts.
• Drive execution of business plans and projects; identify customer and operational needs, communicate priorities, remove obstacles, provide resources, measure progress, and develop contingency plans.
• Select, train, mentor, and develop associates; assign duties, set performance expectations, evaluate performance, recognize contributions, and coach for success and improvement.
• Promote company policies, procedures, mission, values, ethics, and integrity, and support compliance and the Open Door Policy.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of business plans and initiatives, consult stakeholders, and apply suggestions to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Build an inclusive, high-performing team; develop talent; foster trusting relationships; and collaborate and communicate across teams.
• Model integrity, ethics, compliance, accountability, and servant leadership; encourage associates to raise concerns and take appropriate action.
• Deliver business results with a customer- and member-first mindset, using data, analytics, and customer insights to inform plans and strategy.
• Pursue continuous improvement, learning, innovation, and effective use of digital tools and new ways of working.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase plan, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave; PTO and/or PPTO amounts depend on job classification and length of employment.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U, a Walmart-paid education benefit for eligible full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.

What This Job Offers

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