Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About the Team
Walmart Marketplace is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce platforms, enabling third-party sellers to reach millions of customers. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in building scalable, high-performance systems that power seller onboarding, catalog, payments, compliance, and marketplace operations. This role requires strong hands-on engineering, system design expertise, and cross-team technical leadership.
**About Team: ** Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
Lead design and development of scalable distributed systems serving millions of sellers and customers.
Build full-stack solutions using:
- Backend: Java (Spring Boot), REST/gRPC APIs
- Frontend: React (modern hooks-based architecture)
- Data: Cassandra (NoSQL), relational DBs where applicable
- Streaming: Kafka for event-driven architecture
Design event-driven, asynchronous systems using Kafka.
Architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability.
Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of Marketplace services.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
Drive technical roadmap and long-term architecture decisions.
Collaborate with Product, Data, Payments, Risk, and Infrastructure teams.
Lead production readiness, incident resolution, and postmortems.
What you'll bring:
Technical Expertise
8+ years of software engineering experience.
Strong expertise in Java (concurrency, multithreading, JVM internals).
Deep experience building microservices using Spring Boot.
Strong React experience (state management, performance optimization, component design).
Hands-on experience with:
- Cassandra (data modeling, partition strategies, performance tuning)
- Kafka (producers, consumers, schema evolution, scaling)
Experience designing distributed systems at scale.
Strong understanding of:
- CAP theorem
- Event-driven systems
- Idempotency & eventual consistency
- API versioning
- Caching strategies
Experience with CI/CD and cloud-native systems (Kubernetes preferred).
Leadership Expectations (Staff Level)
- Own architecture across multiple services.
- Influence engineering standards.
- Drive cross-team initiatives.
- Identify scalability bottlenecks before they occur.
- Act as a technical multiplier for the team.
Nice to Have
- Marketplace / eCommerce domain experience.
- Experience with payment systems or seller platforms.
- Experience handling high QPS systems.
- Experience migrating monolith → microservices.
- Knowledge of GraphQL.
- Exposure to distributed tracing and observability tools.
Impact You’ll Have
- Enable millions of sellers to transact seamlessly.
- Improve payment processing reliability.
- Drive modernization of legacy services.
- Build systems that operate at Walmart scale.
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 $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 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...
1375 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.