Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Crossman Respect Building, Sunnyvale, California, United States

Annual salary: $143,000–$286,000, plus performance bonuses and possible stock compensation.

Company

Walmart Global Tech develops scalable technology platforms supporting Walmart’s retail marketplace and ecosystem.

What you will do

• Design and build highly scalable backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Architect real-time event-driven systems with Apache Kafka.
• Develop and optimize large-scale batch and streaming pipelines with Apache Spark.
• Drive architecture decisions for scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead system design reviews, define distributed-systems best practices, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.
• Optimize performance through partitioning, caching, asynchronous processing, and concurrency tuning while improving production reliability.

Requirements

• Work on-site in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related field plus 4 years of software engineering experience; or 6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, containers, automation, and the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong skills in API design, prototyping, design patterns, testing, CI/CD, and software maintenance.
• Ability to lead technical reviews, influence architecture decisions, define metrics, and collaborate with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Infrastructure teams.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a relevant computer science or engineering field.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase opportunities, company-paid life insurance, and possible stock compensation.
• Paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Walmart-paid education programs covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible full-time and part-time associates.