Distinguished, Software Engineer

About the role

The role is one of the highest-impact individual contributor roles within Walmart Connect Engineering, focusing on shaping the future of retail media experiences across various platforms.

What you'll do

• Define the long-term architecture for Walmart’s unified omni-channel Ad Experiences platform spanning Mobile, Web, CTV, Video, and DOOH environments.
• Lead the design of highly performant client-side rendering systems and SDKs powering billions of ad requests and rendering events annually.
• Arcitect cross-platform monetization frameworks enabling reusable rendering, experimentation, and measurement capabilities across all shopper surfaces.
• Drive the evolution of Walmart’s first-party client rendering and measurement ecosystem, reducing dependency on third-party ad infrastructure.
• Define rendering performance standards and latency SLAs including time-to-first-frame, render completion, video startup latency, and measurement timing integrity.
• Shape Walmart’s unified video monetization architecture including SSAI, HLS ad stitching, quartile tracking, frame-accurate transitions, and playback resiliency.
• Lead technical strategy for experimentation systems supporting statistically powered optimization across ad load, ranking, shopper engagement, and revenue yield.
• Building a unified rendering architecture that seamlessly spans native apps, browsers, connected devices, in-store screens, and emerging retail surfaces.
• Operating low-latency monetization systems where every additional millisecond directly impacts shopper engagement and revenue yield.
• Safely scaling experimentation and ranking systems across billions of shopper interactions while preserving platform stability.
• Delivering consistent measurement integrity across heterogeneous client environments, operating systems, and hardware generations.
• Creating highly resilient distributed systems capable of operating reliably across large fleets of retail devices with remote observability and recovery.

What you'll bring

• 12+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems or client platforms.
• Recognized technical leadership driving architecture across multiple organizations or product domains.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: AdTech, video platforms, distributed systems, SDK architecture, rendering engines, experimentation systems, or large-scale client applications.
• Strong hands-on engineering background with the ability to operate at both strategic and implementation levels.
• Experience architecting highly performant systems operating under strict latency, scale, and reliability constraints.
• Experience driving cross-functional technical strategy across Product, Infrastructure, Data Science, and Platform Engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence senior technical and executive stakeholders.
• Experience in Retail Media, AdTech, Search monetization, Video monetization, CTV, or DOOH platforms.
• Experience building first-party ad serving or measurement systems.
• Strong understanding of experimentation systems, ranking systems, auction mechanics, or personalization.
• Experience with video playback technologies including HLS/DASH, SSAI, and streaming monetization.
• Experience with cross-platform SDKs spanning iOS, Android, Web, Linux, embedded systems, or connected devices.
• Familiarity with privacy-safe measurement and MRC-compliant instrumentation.
• Experience operating platforms at Walmart-scale or comparable internet-scale environments.

Primary Location

1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America