Staff, Software Engineer

About the role

Position Summary...

What you'll do... As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling highly available, enterprise-grade platforms that power Walmart's technology ecosystem. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influence architecture decisions, drive engineering best practices, and deliver innovative solutions that support business growth and operational excellence. This role requires a strong combination of hands-on software development expertise, architectural leadership, and the ability to mentor engineers while working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

What You'll Do

· Drive the technical vision and influence product strategy, architecture, and roadmap development.

· Design, develop, and implement large-scale, distributed, and highly scalable applications and platforms.

· Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains.

· Architect and develop high-performance, high-throughput systems capable of supporting large transaction volumes.

· Partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Business teams to define and deliver innovative technology solutions.

· Conduct root cause analysis and lead resolution efforts for complex production and business-critical issues.

· Establish software engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.

· Ensure software solutions meet quality, security, compliance, and performance requirements.

· Oversee testing strategies, maintenance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

· Mentor and develop engineering talent by providing technical guidance, coaching, and code reviews.

· Champion Agile development methodologies and contribute to continuous delivery and DevOps practices.

· Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field and 12+ years of software development experience; OR equivalent experience.

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with mandatory, hands-on Java expertise in developing retail or large-scale enterprise applications.

- 8+ years of hands-on Java experience building projects for large-scale distributed systems.

- 4+ years of working expertise in Python.

- 8+ years of Strong expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including data modeling, schema design, and query optimization.

- Hands-on expertise with messaging and queuing solutions (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Google Pub/Sub).

- Hands-on expertise with distributed caching solutions (such as Redis or Memcached).

- 8+ years of experience designing and architecting highly scalable, distributed, and high-performing applications.