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About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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Listed pay typically runs
$121,000–$242,000
across 473 roles with salary data.
The Distinguished, Software Engineer joins the International POS team to define the technical vision for systems powering checkout experiences across international markets. In this role, you will own the platform architecture for edge and cloud services, ensuring low-latency, high-availability, and secure store operations. You will lead platform modernization by standardizing deployments, strengthening resiliency, and simplifying operations. Key responsibilities include designing for intermittent connectivity, regional compliance, and constrained compute while establishing reference architectures and engineering standards. You must demonstrate deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native patterns, and Kubernetes. The role requires a focus on reliability engineering, including building observability, SLOs, and automated remediation. You will solve complex technical problems to ensure seamless, mission-critical transaction processing within a dynamic global retail environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Own the platform architecture for International POS across edge and cloud environments.
Drive platform modernization by standardizing deployments and strengthening system resiliency.
Design systems to handle intermittent connectivity and constrained compute in real store conditions.
Establish reference architectures, golden paths, and engineering standards across multiple domains.
Mentor senior engineers and influence technical decisions across different markets.
Build observability, SLOs, and automated remediation into the platform to ensure reliability.
Simplify complex legacy realities to deliver measurable improvements in uptime and latency.
What we're looking for
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Deep expertise in distributed systems and platform architecture with a track record of delivering highly available, mission-critical systems at scale.
Hands-on strength with Kubernetes and cloud-native patterns including service networking, workload isolation, scaling, security, and multi-region design.
Proven leadership through influence to drive architectural alignment across multiple teams and resolve competing priorities.
Strong experience with reliability engineering, observability, incident reduction, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
Master’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 (preferred).
Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies (preferred).