(USA) Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart
Software Engineering
United States · California, USA · Texas, USA · Tampa, FL, USA · Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Remote
USD 143k-286k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 13, 2026
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
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Role Summary
The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering multiple business or technology-driven projects with small to medium- sized teams. This role plays a pivotal role in shaping architectural decisions, championing scalable, secure, and efficient solutions to meet current and future needs. The Staff Software Engineer serves as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and mentorship to teammates, partner teams, and engineers. The Staff Software Engineer takes ownership across the technical stack to improve speed of delivery, developer productivity, and overall engineering effectiveness. The Staff Software Engineer collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software products.
About the Team:
BuyBox is a critical service within Walmart's e-commerce platform, responsible for selecting the best offer for an item. The BuyBox team is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the complex ecosystem of micro services, which selects the best offer for Walmart customers using machine learning and business rules. They ensure integration with upstream and downstream systems, monitor performance, and address ranking issues to maximize customer and business value. This collaborative environment emphasizes technical expertise, continuous development, and innovation to enhance operational excellence and customer satisfaction across the supply chain.
What You'll Do:
- Act as a technical lead to design, develop, and deliver multiple business- or technology- driven projects with small to medium-sized teams, supporting new functionalities and user experiences.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping architectural decisions, championing scalable, secure, and efficient solutions to meet current and future needs.
- Serve as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and mentorship to teammates, partner teams, and engineers.
- Guide software engineers in building and delivering secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Maven, and cloud technologies.
- Take ownership across the technical stack to improve speed of delivery, developer productivity, and overall engineering effectiveness.
- Drive availability, quality, performance, and resiliency goals with your team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Product, Business, and Operations to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software products.
- Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering relevant information (issue, impact, and criticality), performing root cause analysis, engaging support teams as needed, developing action plans, and completing required documentation.
- Communicate effectively with peers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Enjoy spending time writing and reviewing code while leading technical and architectural design discussions.
- Help establish tools, processes, and documentation to continuously improve code quality and engineering standards.
- Perform design and code reviews, suggest improvements to ensure the highest level of quality and maintainability.
- Oversee development lifecycles, analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data, and provide analysis; evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.
- Document code, technical specifications, and instructional materials for team members and stakeholders.
What You'll Bring:
- 10+ years of experience building complex architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, Spring-boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, event- streaming platforms such as Kafka, and container technologies.
- A disciplined approach to software development, including code reviews, testing, documentation, and clean code practices.
- A strong desire to continuously improve, learn, and adopt the latest capabilities in Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Boot.
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery and Cassandra is a plus.
- Proven ability to translate requirements into project plans while working in an agile environment.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to solve business problems and deliver best-in-class customer experiences.
- A collaborative leadership style that encourages teams to work together and deliver insight-driven outcomes.
- Knowledge of telemetry implementation, security policies, and softwar development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices.
- Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills.
- Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
- Proficiency in Azure and GCP
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About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.
Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process
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 $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
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.