Staff Software Engineer (AI/ML)

Location: Crossman Excellence Building, Sunnyvale, California, United States; primary location at 1345 Crossman Ave. Onsite home-office role.

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

Company

hirify.global is part of Walmart Global Tech and supports enterprise storage infrastructure for mission-critical applications, data platforms, cloud services, and Kubernetes workloads.

What you will do

• Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of enterprise-scale block, file, object, and cloud-native storage platforms.
• Define storage strategies, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and multi-year modernization initiatives.
• Design highly available, resilient, scalable, and secure storage for on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.
• Build data-driven models balancing performance, resiliency, scalability, utilization, and cost.
• Develop AI-powered remediation workflows and operational copilots for incident diagnosis, root cause analysis, and infrastructure recovery.
• Lead critical production incident investigations and implement architectural improvements to prevent recurrence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, and operating enterprise storage platforms in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST Data, Cohesity, Dell PowerScale, or similar technologies.
• Strong architectural understanding of SAN, NAS, object storage, and distributed storage systems, including FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, and S3-based platforms.
• Experience supporting multi-petabyte storage environments with demanding availability, scalability, resiliency, and performance requirements.
• Expertise in storage architecture, performance engineering, workload characterization, capacity planning, and troubleshooting complex production infrastructure issues.
• Understanding of snapshots, replication, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber-resiliency architectures.
• Either a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 4 years of software engineering experience, or 6 years of software engineering experience.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 2 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies.
• Knowledge of digital accessibility best practices and Walmart accessibility standards and guidelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase plan, company-paid life insurance, and performance-based bonuses.
• Paid time off including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short- and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Walmart-paid education benefits covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs from high school completion through bachelor's degrees, English language learning, and certificates.