(usa) Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving high-scale distributed systems for the Marketplace API Gateway, including extending the MCP gateway for agentic integrations and contributing to the architectural roadmap for agentic systems. The role involves backend services, federated GraphQL, and developer platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and evolve high‑scale distributed services that power the Marketplace API Gateway supporting critical seller and partner traffic.
  2. Lead the development of the mGQL (Marketplace GraphQL) gateway, including schema design, routing logic, federation strategy, and performance optimization.
  3. Extend and enhance the MCP (Modal Context Protocol) gateway to enable agentic workflows and context‑aware integrations across Marketplace domain systems.
  4. Own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of backend services, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing reliability.
  5. Implement and drive best practices for resiliency, observability, rate limiting, quotas, latency reduction, SLAs, and fault isolation across gateway platforms.

Skills

Required

  • Strong experience designing and operating large‑scale distributed systems and API gateway platforms.
  • Deep expertise in GraphQL, including schema design, federation, and performance optimization.
  • Solid understanding of backend service design, reliability engineering, observability, and fault‑tolerant architectures.
  • Experience building developer platforms, public APIs, and tooling with a strong focus on developer experience (DX).
  • Working knowledge of modern protocols, API contracts, and platform governance practices.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Node.js, Java, or Rust.
  • Hands‑on experience with modern front‑end frameworks (React/TypeScript preferred).

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with agentic systems, autonomous workflows, or emerging middleware patterns is a plus.
  • Ability to collaborate cross‑functionally and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams.
  • A developer‑first mindset, with a passion for designing intuitive, scalable, and future‑ready platforms.

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic integrations
  • agentic workflows
  • autonomous workflows
  • intelligent routing
  • context-aware data flows
  • agentic systems

Other signals

  • agentic integrations
  • agentic workflows
  • autonomous workflows
  • intelligent routing
  • context-aware data flows
  • agentic systems