[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Walmart jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Walmart · United States # R-2594130 United States $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Listed on Walmart’s official careers site. Listed as of October 18, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Walmart’s careers site →](https://careers.walmart.com/us/en/jobs/R-2594130) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Walmart](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/) / R-2594130 ## Job description ### Role summary Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role drives the full software lifecycle, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business objectives. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to deliver innovative, data-driven solutions. Emphasizing continuous improvement and engineering excellence, this position supports Walmart’s commitment to operational efficiency and technology innovation within a dynamic and evolving environment. ### About the team The Marketplace Engineering team develops and maintains core platforms supporting Walmart’s extensive product range and competitive pricing. This team manages the seller lifecycle, monitors customer interactions, and delivers risk features to detect and mitigate marketplace risks. Collaborating with partner platform teams, they ensure seamless integration and continuous improvement of seller and customer experiences on walmart.com. Utilizing cloud-native architecture, software design patterns, and data-driven decision-making, the team builds scalable, resilient solutions that drive operational excellence and innovation across the marketplace ecosystem. ### What you'll do Design and build highly scalable backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot. Architect and implement real-time event-driven systems using Apache Kafka. Develop and optimize large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Spark. Drive architecture decisions around scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost efficiency. Lead system design reviews and define engineering best practices for distributed systems. Work closely with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to deliver business impact. Optimize system performance through partitioning strategies, caching, async processing, and concurrency tuning. Mentor engineers and act as a technical multiplier across multiple teams. Participate in production incident reviews and drive long-term platform reliability improvements. ### What you'll bring Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture, including microservices, containers, and automation to ensure scalable and resilient systems. Strong experience in software development lifecycle management, encompassing coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, and maintenance. Proficiency in platform engineering, infrastructure tooling, and AI/ML integration using languages such as JavaScript, Python, Java, and C++. Ability to conduct system design reviews and apply software design patterns for secure, maintainable, and modular solutions. Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions to promote technical excellence. Skilled in data-driven decision making, debugging, and continuous development to optimize engineering outcomes. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see [https://one.walmart.com/notices](https://one.walmart.com/notices). Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart. The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Stock ## Qualifications ### Option 1 Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. ### Option 2 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Not stated - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 7 days - Location: United States - Pay: $143,000.00 - $286,000.00[Apply on Walmart’s careers site →](https://careers.walmart.com/us/en/jobs/R-2594130) ## More jobs at Walmart ### [(PRI) Personal Shopper Sam's Club PT](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/jobs/c483611dba8899fcc347/) United States ### [(PRI) RX Tech Certified Sam's Club, Rx Tech](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/jobs/94880113565588071a41/) United States ### [(USA).com Traffic Clerk](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/jobs/da60b5223d308a943851/) United States ### [(USA) Area Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/jobs/25ce948f5cbc5e4bbdfa/) United States OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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