(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:
The Staff, Software Engineer plays a critical role in delivering scalable platform capabilities and driving the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. This position requires expertise in cloud-native architecture, AI/ML integration, and software design patterns to build resilient, modular solutions. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration across teams to ensure alignment with business goals and engineering excellence. The engineer applies data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement practices to enhance productivity and deliver high-quality software solutions. They would lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions.
About the team:
Walmart’s Advertising Technology group connects supplier brands with retail shoppers at unmatched scale. Our engineers and data scientists build high-performance ad serving and data platforms that process massive volumes of requests, user activity, and transaction data. We apply machine learning, optimization, and large-scale distributed systems to deliver highly relevant advertising experiences for customers and measurable value for advertisers. This role is part of the Sponsored Ads engineering team, building next-generation ad relevance, retrieval, ranking, and ML infrastructure. You will own critical components, influence architecture and technology choices, and collaborate across Walmart Connect to deliver performance, reliability, and impact at scale.
What you'll do:

• Lead the design and delivery of large scale software, ML infrastructure, and platform capabilities.
• Translate product and business strategy into scalable, resilient, maintainable architectures and long term technical roadmaps.
• Own coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
• Drive system design reviews, architectural decisions, and root cause analysis for complex production and reliability issues.
• Build cloud native platforms, ML frameworks, model serving capabilities, and AI driven applications supporting automation and intelligent workflows.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, raise engineering standards, and partner across product, data science, and engineering teams to deliver high performance solutions at scale.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong experience in AdTech, Search, relevance, or large scale distributed systems.
• Expertise building highly available, fault tolerant, cloud native services using microservices, containers, APIs, and automation.
• Hands on proficiency in Java or another object oriented language, Spring, NoSQL, Kafka, Spark, and modern data platforms.
• Experience partnering with Data Science teams to productionize and serve ML models in real time.
• Exceptional analytical reasoning, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated architecture leadership, mentorship, communication, collaboration, and commitment to engineering excellence.

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. 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.
Sunnyvale, California US-11657: The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
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 :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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...

1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, 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.