Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart Inc.
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Job summary
Walmart Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to deliver platform capabilities, tooling, and ML frameworks. You will own the full software lifecycle, drive CI/CD, and lead AI/ML integration across teams.
The role emphasizes cloud-native architecture, mentorship, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders to define requirements and track success metrics. Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits accompany this position.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 4+ years of software engineering experience.
- Alternative: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Experience with modern programming languages and cloud-native architectures.
Responsibilities
- Deliver platform capabilities including infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks.
- Drive the full software development lifecycle from coding to deployment and maintenance.
- Lead AI/ML integration and product development using multiple languages.
- Mentor engineers and junior leaders across teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate problems into actionable technical requirements.
- Ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable system design.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
1375 Crossman Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114
$143,000 - $286,000/yr
Regular/ Permanent
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. Leads 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. Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade‑offs and considering long‑term impacts on system architecture and business goals. Change Agility: Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context. Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes. 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. 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. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co‑workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high‑performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members. 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). Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non‑retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates; takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values. Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self‑aware, honest, and transparent. Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni‑merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low‑Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members. Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy. Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk‑taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks. Strive for Excellence: Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
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:
- Stock
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
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.
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.
1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America
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