Senior, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions. This role owns the full software development lifecycle—from problem formulation and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support—across services, APIs, data pipelines, and AI/ML-enabled components. The successful candidate partners cross-functionally to translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements, drive continuous improvement, and ensure high-quality outcomes aligned with platform and business objectives.
An individual must be able to successfully perform the essential functions of this position with or without a reasonable accommodation.
What you'll do:

• Technical leadership & delivery: Drive end-to-end delivery of software and data products, making sound architectural decisions and ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Tech problem formulation: Identify options to address business problems using appropriate analytical/automation methods; demonstrate understanding of use cases, desired outcomes, and success measures.
• Business context & stakeholder partnership: Build relationships with key stakeholders; identify business needs; support business cases and recommendations; adapt to competing demands and organizational change.
• Data source identification & quality: Determine fit-for-purpose data sources across business systems; understand requirements/SLA priority; perform initial data quality checks on extracted data.
• Data transformation & integration: Build and maintain data pipelines using batch/streaming ingestion and integration techniques (e.g., ETL, APIs, crawlers/scrapers); apply preprocessing methods (normalization, feature extraction) as needed.
• Data modeling: Contribute to conceptual/logical/physical data models (data lake/warehouse/marts); define relational structures (tables, keys, stored procedures); evaluate and improve existing models and data flows; address integration challenges.
• Code development & testing: Develop features using languages such as Java, Python, SQL, C++ (as applicable); create proofs of concept; write test cases; validate designs; deploy to production; maintain documentation and playbooks; provide timely status updates.
• Governance, privacy, and compliance: Support documentation and implementation of data governance practices, including privacy, security, retention, and ethical/regulatory requirements.
• Data strategy & continuous improvement: Apply data strategy principles to routine business problems; identify improvement opportunities; promote continuous learning and operational excellence.
• Mentorship & team development: Provide guidance to less experienced engineers; support training and enablement; contribute to an inclusive, accountable team culture.

What you'll bring:
You bring strong technical/architectural leadership, including cost optimization through the right architecture and pricing models, plus full-stack microservices experience (Java, Node.js, React, Angular). You’ve helped define long-term platform (PaaS) strategy at global scale, document and share best practices/reference architectures, and drive engineering excellence in reliability, monitoring/alerting, product health, and portability.
Minimum qualifications are a CS degree + 2 years, or 4 years equivalent experience, or a CS master’s. Preferred: advanced degree and/or 4+ years in data engineering/BI/analytics, plus experience building accessible digital products aligned to WCAG 2.2 AA. Key skills include data engineering, data transformation/modeling, SQL, and ETL.

• Analytics & automation: Big data/analytics concepts, automation techniques, and applying best practices to action plans.
• Data ecosystems: Data value chains (ingestion → processing → storage → analysis → utilization), data quality frameworks/metrics, and governance practices.
• Datastores & query: SQL/NoSQL, distributed datastores, and understanding where enterprise data is held.
• Pipeline & platform technologies: ETL and streaming patterns; data warehousing/MPP platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Presto, Azure); cloud/big data environments.
• Modeling tools & methods: Dimensional modeling, ERDs, and related tooling (e.g., Erwin or equivalent); metadata management concepts.
• Engineering quality: Testing approaches (static/dynamic analysis, SCA, penetration testing as applicable), documentation, operational readiness, and production support.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed.  We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.  
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey. 

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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.
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 $90,000.00 - $180,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...

805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

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