Staff, Software Engineer- Search platform

Walmart; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech in Sunnyvale seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Search Runtime Engineering team. This hands-on role requires exceptional coding skills, architectural vision, and the ability to guide and mentor a large team of engineers.

You will lead design and implementation of core platform features, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Business, and Operations to align requirements with performance and cost goals while strengthening security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with relevant experience.
• Strong foundation in system design, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of Java, Spring, and server-side applications.
• Hands-on debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of Java apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of scalable backend features.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.
• Drive system design, code quality, and performance goals.
• Build secure REST services with Spring Boot and cloud tech.
• Collaborate with Product, Business, and Operations to meet requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis for critical production issues.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Distributed systems

System design

REST services

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Git

Leadership

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

Git

Solr

Lucene

Vespa

Job description

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join Walmart Search Runtime Engineering team. This hands-on role requires exceptional coding skills, a passion for technology and engineering excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor a large team of engineers. You will play a pivotal role in defining and maintaining our technical architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability requirements and cost optimization.

What you’ll do

• Act as a technical lead to design, develop scalable, high-performance backend system and lead end-to-end delivery of core platform features and infrastructure improvements.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
• Drive system design, code quality, developer productivity and operational excellence.
• Guide software engineers in building and delivering secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and cloud technologies.
• 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.
• Direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing relevant information (issue, impact, and criticality) and directing actions as designated in the plan.
• Communicate effectively with peers and stakeholders at all levels.
• Help establish tools, processes, and documentation to continuously improve code quality and engineering standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Science, Product, and Search Ops.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science and 6 years of experience or master's degree in computer science and 4 years of experience with building scalable, highly distributed, high performing, and robust Java applications.
• Strong foundation in system design, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, Spring framework, Web applications and distributed systems with a focus on server-side components.
• Proficient hands-on experience in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning Java application.
• Experience with search technologies (e.g., Solr, Lucene, Vespa).
• Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or similar).
• Proficiency CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Maven) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the search domain highly desirable.

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 experts 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.

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.

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