(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 132,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Stock purchase program

Paid time off

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Staff Engineer in Hoboken, NJ to set architectural direction across multiple teams. You will own highly scalable, distributed systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product leadership to deliver on the business roadmap.

You will drive reliability, performance, and modernization initiatives, working in a cloud-first environment with Azure and Cosmos DB, and collaborating with global teams to enable Walmart’s eCommerce Fulfillment platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems at scale.
• Strong architectural and design skills across multiple teams.

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 and document tradeoffs on availability, consistency, latency, and cost.
• Identify and eliminate systemic reliability, scalability, and performance risks before incidents occur.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and raise the quality bar via reviews and best practices.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into executable technical strategy and milestones.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

Production systems

System design

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Azure

Cosmos DB

Job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

As a Staff Engineer, you'll be a force-multiplying technical leader who sets architectural direction across multiple teams, resolves the hardest ambiguous technical problems, and raises the engineering bar time-wide. You'll operate with significant autonomy — partnering with Directors, Principal Engineers, and Product leadership to deliver on business roadmap, while mentoring Senior Engineers and ensuring technical excellence.

About the team:

The Fulfillment Engineering team is a strong, globally distributed group building and operating Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) for Walmart's rapidly expanding U.S. eCommerce Fulfillment Center (FC) network. Our platforms power High Velocity Fulfillment Centers and Next Generation Automated Fulfillment Centers—among the largest and most advanced fulfillment operations in the world. We're accelerating growth with a platform-first mindset: a shared, cloud-first, distributed-systems foundation that unlocks reuse, improves reliability, and enables fulfillment capabilities to ship at scale and speed. Our FCs also power Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS), one of Walmart's fastest-growing businesses—offering deep exposure to supply chain and fulfillment operations at unmatched scale.

What you’ll do:

• 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

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent depth), preferably in Java, with a track record of increasing technical scope and impact
• Expert-level experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems (Kafka or similar) at enterprise scale
• Deep hands‑on experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores, including schema/data-model decisions that affect multiple downstream consumers
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale: driving reliability strategy, diagnosing complex cross‑service incidents, and leading performance tuning initiatives
• Exceptional system design skills, with experience architecting solutions that multiple teams build upon
• Demonstrated experience mentoring Senior Engineers and influencing technical direction across teams in fast‑paced Agile environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting architecture and design to senior technical and business stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tooling/agents to accelerate development, troubleshooting, and team‑wide productivity

You’ll stand out if you have:

• Deep Azure experience (including Cosmos DB at scale) and Kafka expertise across high-throughput, multi‑team systems
• A track record of designing and operating enterprise distributed systems with well‑reasoned, documented tradeoffs across availability, consistency, latency, and cost
• Strong supply chain / fulfillment domain expertise (WMS/WES/FC operations) and the ability to apply it to cross‑system architecture decisions

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.

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 (https://one.walmart.com/).

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 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 6 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 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.

Primary Location...

221 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, 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.

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, abilities, ideas and opinions‑ while being inclusive of all people.