Staff SRE Engineer - AI-Driven Reliability & Automation

Walmart, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Stock awards

Paid time off

Job summary

Walmart, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Walmart Data Ventures in Sunnyvale, CA to lead reliability across platforms and services. You will architect automation, observability, and AI-powered capabilities to reduce incidents and MTTR while enabling scalable, resilient systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, cross-functional influence, and building reusable patterns to elevate reliability and production readiness across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related area plus 4 years of software engineering experience.
• Master’s degree preferred in CS/Engineering with focus on accessibility and WCAG standards is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive SRE strategy and best practices across Data Ventures, establishing standards for reliability engineering, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.
• Architect reusable automation frameworks, unified dashboards, and SLO tooling to improve platform-wide visibility and reliability.
• Lead AI-driven reliability innovation by engineering GenAI-powered agents for incident triage, root cause analysis, workflow automation, self-healing systems, and customer support.
• Set technical direction for scalability, resilience, and reliability across Data Ventures, driving measurable reductions in incidents, MTTR, and operational toil.
• Influence engineering practices through architecture reviews, reusable patterns, and cross-functional partnerships.
• Advance support excellence and engineering quality through automation, CI/CD, testing, production readiness, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Distributed systems

SRE principles

Observability

Incident management

AI/GenAI

Automation

Kubernetes

Containers

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Walmart, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Walmart Data Ventures in Sunnyvale, CA to lead reliability across platforms and services. You will architect automation, observability, and AI-powered capabilities to reduce incidents and MTTR while enabling scalable, resilient systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, cross-functional influence, and building reusable patterns to elevate reliability and production readiness across the organization.