(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Location: 221 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America

Salary: $132,000–$264,000 annually, plus performance-based bonuses and possible stock compensation

Company

Build and operate warehouse management systems for Walmart’s U.S. eCommerce fulfillment center network, including high-velocity and automated fulfillment centers and Walmart Fulfillment Services.

What you will do

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap for a critical platform domain spanning multiple services and teams.
• Lead the design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed, event-driven Java systems at Walmart scale.
• Drive cross-team architecture decisions and document tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, latency, and cost.
• Identify and eliminate systemic reliability, scalability, and performance risks; lead telemetry, alerting, incident response, and blameless root-cause-analysis practices.
• Lead technical-debt reduction and modernization initiatives across multiple teams and services.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and partner with Product, Principal Engineers, and senior stakeholders to turn ambiguous business problems into technical strategy and milestones.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of software engineering experience, or 6 years of software engineering experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent depth, preferably with Java, with increasing technical scope and impact.
• Expert-level experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems such as Kafka at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores, including schema and data-model decisions affecting downstream consumers.
• Experience owning production systems at scale, including reliability strategy, complex cross-service incident diagnosis, and performance tuning.
• Exceptional system design skills and experience architecting solutions used by multiple teams.
• Experience mentoring Senior Engineers and influencing technical direction across teams in fast-paced Agile environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting architecture and design to senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to leverage AI tooling and agents to accelerate development, troubleshooting, and team-wide productivity.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 2 years of software engineering experience.
• Deep Azure experience, including Cosmos DB at scale, and Kafka expertise across high-throughput, multi-team systems.
• Experience designing and operating enterprise distributed systems with documented tradeoffs across availability, consistency, latency, and cost.
• Strong supply chain or fulfillment domain expertise, including WMS, WES, or fulfillment center operations.
• Knowledge of inclusive digital experiences, 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 performance-based bonuses.
• Paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, voting leave, and disability benefits.
• Military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and company discounts.
• Live Better U provides Walmart-paid education programs, including high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and certificates; tuition, books, and fees are covered.