Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary

Delivers platform capabilities within a sub-organization or technical area, including infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks. Aligns development efforts with roadmap milestones and domain priorities to ensure cohesive execution. Applies cloud-native architecture principles to achieve scalability, resilience, and agility across systems.

Platform Engineering Execution

• Delivers platform capabilities within a sub-organization or technical area, including infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks (for example, CI/CD, SDKs, model runtimes, feature stores).
• Aligns development efforts with roadmap milestones and domain priorities to ensure cohesive execution.
• Applies cloud-native architecture principles (for example, microservices, containers, automation) to achieve scalability, resilience, and agility across systems.

Software Development & Lifecycle Ownership

• Drives the full software development lifecycle: coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, observability, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Led infrastructure and tooling development to accelerate engineering productivity, enhance developer experience, and support platform goals.
• Conducts system design reviews to validate feasibility, ensure quality, and confirm alignment with project goals and architectural best practices.

AI/ML Integration & Product Development

• Builds AI-driven applications and intelligent automation features using languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, Dart, and C++.
• Integrates AI agents and ML components that support multi-step reasoning and automation using platforms like GitHub Copilot.
• Applies design patterns and principles to ensure solutions are secure, maintainable, modular, and scalable.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentors engineers and junior leaders across teams, fostering technical growth, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
• Influences architectural and technical decisions, advocating for standardization, reusability, and long-term sustainability.
• Enables team members through delegation, documentation, developer tool selection, and design guidance.

Customer/Associate Problem Definition & Metrics

• Engages product and business stakeholders to identify and refine complex user problems, converting them into actionable technical requirements.
• Breaks down work into well-scoped, actionable units ready for engineering execution.
• Uses data-driven engineering practices to define and track success metrics, optimize development processes, and maintain engineering excellence.

Engineering Excellence

• Contributes to API design and software prototyping to validate technical solutions and gather early feedback.
• Facilitates correction-of-error review processes to continuously improve code quality and reduce defect recurrence.
• Stays current with industry trends and contributes to engineering thought leadership through documentation, tool evaluations, and internal knowledge sharing.

Technical Ownership

• Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives.
• Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion.

Change Agility

• Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context.
• Antspects the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes.

Collaboration

• Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products.
• Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.

Supervision & Development Opportunities

• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in workplace.

Respect the Individual

• Promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work;
• Empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company;
• Regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Act with Integrity

• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance;
• Models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture;
• Supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Live Better U

• 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.

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

• 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.

Primary Location

2501 Se J St, Ste A, Bentonville, AR 72716-3724, United States of America

Additional Compensation

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