Position Summary...
Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.
What you'll do...
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team to build, operate, and evolve highly available, scalable distributed technologies like caching and search backend platform capabilities supporting enterprise-grade applications and services. This role will focus on NoSQL products support, like Cache and Search, while also driving API development, backend engineering, site reliability, DevOps automation, and operational excellence across the platform. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on expertise in Java and Python, deep understanding of distributed systems and production operations, and practical experience building resilient platform services. This engineer will help design and support APIs and backend services, improve platform reliability and observability, automate operational workflows, and apply AI-assisted development and automation to reduce toil, optimize incident response, and improve engineering productivity. This role requires strong technical judgment, ownership, collaboration across product and infrastructure teams, and alignment with Walmart’s culture of integrity, respect, service, and excellence. What you'll do:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and platform APIs in Java and Python.
- Own and enhance distributed platform capabilities using technologies such as cache and search, including provisioning patterns, performance tuning, reliability improvements, upgrades, and operational support.
- Develop reusable services, frameworks, and automation for products** lifecycle management**, configuration, failover, monitoring, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.
- Build and support platform APIs that enable internal teams to provision, consume, monitor, and manage cache and related data platform services.
- Drive DevOps and SRE practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment standardization, deployment safety, release engineering, and operational readiness.
- Improve observability through metrics, dashboards, alerting, tracing, logging, and health signals for proactive incident prevention and faster recovery.
- Participate in and improve production operations, including on-call support, incident triage, root cause analysis, problem management, and post-incident remediation.
- Use AI-based development and automation techniques to reduce operational toil, accelerate troubleshooting, improve code quality, assist knowledge discovery, and optimize repetitive engineering workflows.
- Collaborate with architects and partner teams to design reliable, secure, and cost-efficient distributed data platform solutions.
- Contribute to platform roadmaps, technical design reviews, coding standards, documentation, and operational playbooks.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through design guidance, reviews, and best-practice adoption.
What you'll bring:
- Strong backend engineering in Java + Python to build and evolve platform APIs/services (REST/gRPC) with solid testing and code quality.
- Distributed systems + NoSQL operations expertise (cache/search/key-value) including performance tuning, resiliency patterns, and production troubleshooting.
- SRE/DevOps mindset: CI/CD, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/cloud-native operations, and improving reliability through SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
- Observability & incident leadership: metrics/logs/traces, dashboards/alerting, rapid triage, root cause analysis, and driving remediation to prevent repeat issues.
- Automation-first (incl. AI-assisted) problem solving to reduce operational toil and improve incident response and engineering productivity.
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. Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates. Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey. Benefits: 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.
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. The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00 - $234,000.00 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 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 5 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 1 year's 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.