Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Onsite in Bentonville, Arkansas or Sunnyvale, California, United States

Annual salary: $110,000–$220,000 in Bentonville or $143,000–$286,000 in Sunnyvale, plus performance bonuses and potential stock compensation.

Company

Walmart Data Ventures develops scalable B2B data solutions that provide merchants and suppliers with actionable insights.

What you will do

• Drive SRE strategy and reliability engineering standards across Data Ventures.
• Architect reusable automation frameworks, unified dashboards, observability capabilities, and SLO tooling.
• Build GenAI-powered agents for incident triage, root cause analysis, workflow automation, self-healing systems, and customer support.
• Set technical direction for scalability, resilience, operational readiness, and service reliability.
• Influence architecture and engineering practices through reviews, reusable patterns, and cross-functional partnerships.
• Improve production quality through CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, debugging, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor's degree in a relevant field plus 4 years of software engineering experience, or 6 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
• Deep knowledge of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Hands-on experience with AI/GenAI, agentic solutions, automation, and self-healing systems.
• Experience with programming, cloud platforms, microservices, data pipelines, Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, and debugging.
• Work onsite in Bentonville, Arkansas or Sunnyvale, California.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase opportunities, company-paid life insurance, and potential performance bonuses.
• 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 benefits covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.