Staff Software Engineer - Platform Architect for Scale

Walmart Inc.; Hoboken (NJ); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (medical, vision, and

401(k) and stock purchase

Company-paid life insurance

Paid time off (PTO) and various leave

Disability coverage and discounts

Live Better U education benefit

Job summary

Walmart Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to set architectural direction across multiple teams for a critical platform domain within our Fulfillment Engineering group in Hoboken, NJ.

You will own design, drive reliability, and mentor engineers to raise the engineering bar, collaborating with product leadership to translate business problems into scalable technical strategy. You will lead high‑scale, distributed systems and partner with Directors and Principal Engineers to deliver on the roadmap

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area.
• 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area (alternative option).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap for a critical platform domain spanning multiple services and teams.
• Lead design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed, event-driven systems (Java-based) at Walmart scale.
• Drive cross-team architecture decisions — making and documenting tradeoffs on availability, consistency, latency, and cost that affect the broader platform.
• Identify and eliminate systemic reliability, scalability, and performance risks before they become incidents.
• Set the team-wide bar for operational excellence: telemetry standards, alerting strategy, incident response frameworks, and blameless root-cause-analysis practices.
• Lead tech-debt reduction and modernization initiatives that span multiple teams and services.
• Mentor and grow Senior Engineers into technical leaders; raising the quality bar through design reviews, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Partner directly with Product, Principal Engineers, and senior stakeholders to translate ambiguous, multi-team business problems into executable technical strategy and milestones.

Skills

Software architecture

Microservices

Event-driven

Java

SQL/NoSQL databases

Production systems

System design

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Kafka

Azure

Cosmos DB

Job description

Walmart Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to set architectural direction across multiple teams for a critical platform domain within our Fulfillment Engineering group in Hoboken, NJ.

You will own design, drive reliability, and mentor engineers to raise the engineering bar, collaborating with product leadership to translate business problems into scalable technical strategy. You will lead high‑scale, distributed systems and partner with Directors and Principal Engineers to deliver on the roadmap