(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech; Bentonville (AR); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Stock options

PTO & leave

Education opportunities

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech in Bentonville, AR, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, with cloud-native and AI-enhanced applications. This role oversees the full SDLC for the Data Venture AI Platform, ensuring high availability and performance across distributed systems.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and translate complex business needs into effective technical solutions while aligning with Walmart’s

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or related area.
• 7+ years of software engineering or related experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering efforts delivering scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling and AI frameworks.
• Drive full SDLC across multiple teams ensuring high availability and real-time data processing.
• Architect and implement AI-enhanced applications using cloud-native principles and model-driven design.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud-native

CI/CD

AI/ML integration

Python

Mentorship

Distributed systems

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE

7+ years software engineering experience

Job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do...Role summary:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving innovation in cloud-native architectures and AI-enhanced applications. This role requires overseeing the full software development lifecycle around Data Venture AI Platform, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems. You will provide strategic technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business needs into effective technical solutions. Your expertise will support Walmart’s long-term technology vision while fostering continuous improvement and operational excellence across multiple projects and teams.

Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for this position

About the team:

The team tackles complex business and technical challenges within Growth Tech by leveraging advanced AI coding agents throughout planning, design, implementation, testing, and operations. They establish standards for scalable, reliable, and secure production systems, operating at the intersection of software engineering, data, and AI. Delivering valuable insights to suppliers and merchants, the team develops platforms for intelligent automation, including agent orchestration and customer-facing AI solutions. Emphasizing rapid iteration and adaptive systems that learn from usage, the team fosters collaboration and continuous improvement to drive innovation in a dynamic environment.

What you'll do

• Lead platform engineering efforts by delivering scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling, and advanced AI frameworks aligned with strategic roadmaps.
• Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and real-time data processing capabilities.
• Architect and implement AI-enhanced applications using cloud-native principles and model-driven design to serve millions of users.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, promoting engineering excellence and standardization across teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and measurable success metrics.
• Maintain architectural documentation and ensure quality, reliability, and continuous improvement of software solutions.

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership, delivering scalable, cloud-native architectures and reusable tooling.
• Proven expertise in software development lifecycle management, including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and incident response.
• Strong proficiency in AI/ML integration and building intelligent software systems using Python and related technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to apply model-driven design and technical solution architecture for complex distributed systems.
• Effective mentorship skills with a track record of guiding engineering teams and influencing architectural decisions.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and innovation capabilities aligned with business and customer needs.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to engage cross-functional stakeholders and drive technical excellence.

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 expert's 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.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

• 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 https://one.walmart.com/notices.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
• Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart.

Bentonville, Arkansas US-10735: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Bellevue, Washington US-11663: The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00 - $264,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 7 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 3 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.

Primary Location

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

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. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.