Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Software Engineer role focused on Walmart Fulfillment Services & Marketplace Engineering. Responsibilities include technical leadership, architectural design, mentoring, and guiding software engineers in building scalable, secure, and efficient REST services using technologies like Spring Boot, Kafka, and Kubernetes. The role emphasizes ownership across the technical stack to improve delivery speed and developer productivity, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products and troubleshoot issues.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a technical lead to design, develop, and deliver multiple business- or technology-driven projects with small to medium-sized teams, supporting new functionalities and user experiences.
  2. Play a pivotal role in shaping architectural decisions, championing scalable, secure, and efficient solutions to meet current and future needs.
  3. Serve as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and mentorship to teammates, partner teams, and engineers.
  4. Guide software engineers in building and delivering secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Maven, and cloud technologies.
  5. Take ownership across the technical stack to improve speed of delivery, developer productivity, and overall engineering effectiveness.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience building complex architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, event-streaming platforms such as Kafka, and container technologies.
  • A disciplined approach to software development, including code reviews, testing, documentation, and clean code practices.
  • A strong desire to continuously improve, learn, and adopt the latest capabilities in Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Boot.
  • Proven ability to translate requirements into project plans while working in an agile environment.
  • Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to solve business problems and deliver best-in-class customer experiences.
  • A collaborative leadership style that encourages teams to work together and deliver insight-driven outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with BigQuery (data warehousing) and Cloud Bigtable (NoSQL) is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer-sponsored immigration support.
  • Walmart does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.