(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

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The Staff, Software Engineer plays a critical role in delivering scalable platform capabilities and driving the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment. This position leads infrastructure and tooling initiatives to enhance engineering productivity and supports AI/ML integration for intelligent automation.

The role requires strong technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration across teams to ensure high quality, maintainable solutions aligned with business objectives. The engineer applies data-driven practices to optimize processes and continuously improve software quality while adapting to evolving technologies and organizational priorities.What you'll do...

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About the team:

The Global Communications Engineering team drives innovation and engineering excellence to support Walmart’s communications organization. The team designs and delivers advanced software solutions that enhance the associate experience while maintaining high standards of integrity.

It focuses on full stack technologies, collaborating closely with product managers and technical architects to implement the latest technologies and automations. The team values technical leadership and mentorship, guiding members through requirements gathering, design, development, and deployment.

Emphasizing cloud-native architecture, API design, and data-driven decision making, the team continuously advances scalable, maintainable, and secure software solutions.

What you'll do:

• Lead End-to-End Engineering: Drive the design, development, deployment, and operation of scalable, resilient, cloud-native solutions, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Drive Technical Strategy and Architecture: Lead system design, influence architectural decisions, and establish engineering standards across complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Promote best practices in software quality, automation, observability, and continuous improvement to accelerate delivery and operational efficiency.
• Provide Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, foster knowledge sharing, and elevate engineering capabilities through technical guidance and collaboration.
• Partner Across Teams: Collaborate with product, business, and engineering stakeholders to translate business needs into innovative technical solutions and drive alignment on priorities and outcomes.
• Accelerate AI-Driven Engineering: Leverage AI, LLMs, and intelligent automation to streamline development workflows, enhance system diagnostics, reduce operational toil, and improve mean time to recovery.
• Advance AI-Native Practices: Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and emerging technologies to improve developer productivity, accelerate innovation, and drive measurable business impact.

What you'll bring:

• Full-Stack Engineering: Strong expertise in React, JavaScript, Java, Node.js, microservices, REST APIs, and GraphQL.
• Cloud & DevOps: Experience building scalable, cloud-native solutions with CI/CD, automation, and modern DevOps practices.
• AI & LLM Integration: Hands-on experience with production LLM applications, AI guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and intelligent automation.
• Agentic AI & Protocols: Experience with AI agents, multi-step reasoning, MCP, A2A, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to drive architectural decisions, influence technical direction, and collaborate across teams.
• Problem-Solving & Communication: Strong analytical, systems-thinking, and communication skills to solve complex engineering challenges.
• Nice to Have: Experience designing, developing, and deploying enterprise communication platforms.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.

Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

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Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Preferred Qualifications... -------------------------------

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location... -----------------------

805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.