Distinguished Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$156,000–$312,000 / yr
Posted
132 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $138,500–$253,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $234k versus about $196k for comparable roles.

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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

Walmart currently has 825 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $121,000–$242,000 across 473 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Distinguished Software Engineer

The Distinguished, Software Engineer joins the Marketplace, Category Strategic Initiatives team to serve as a visionary, hands-on technical leader. This role involves defining architectural blueprints, engineering standards, and technology strategies for high-impact marketplace initiatives. You will build and lead the design of complex, large-scale distributed systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and reusable across multiple domains. Key responsibilities include mentoring senior engineers, performing deep technical discovery, and managing platform scalability and security. You will utilize cloud-native distributed system development, specifically with Azure, GCP, or WCNP, while working with microservices and distributed architectures. The role solves the business problem of translating strategic category goals into maintainable technical investments, focusing on low-latency performance, data protection, and cross-platform integration to support diverse seller needs and long-term category growth.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and champion architectural blueprints, engineering standards, and best practices for Marketplace CSI initiatives.
  • Set the technical vision for cross-domain and cross-platform integrations to ensure scalable and reusable solutions.
  • Lead the design and implementation of complex, large-scale distributed systems focusing on performance and security.
  • Perform deep technical discovery and requirement analysis to translate business goals into scalable platform investments.
  • Provide hands-on coding and technical leadership to solve high-complexity engineering problems and mentor senior engineers.
  • Drive engineering excellence through observability, automation, CI/CD, and operational best practices at scale.
  • Serve as a technical advisor to senior leadership to influence platform investments and organizational engineering strategy.
  • Oversee system health, vulnerability management, and architectural risk mitigation across all CSI-owned capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 6 years of software engineering experience, or 8 years of experience without a degree.
  • Must have deep working knowledge of cloud-native distributed system development.
  • Must have strong experience building full-stack, multi-platform, large-scale, low-latency systems using microservices and distributed architectures.
  • Must have strong hands-on coding experience and the ability to go deep on architecture and implementation details.
  • Must have proven experience mentoring engineers, technical leaders, and architects while leading large engineering efforts.
  • Must have experience partnering cross-functionally with product, program management, QA, release management, and operations teams.
  • Must have strong platform-oriented decision-making skills and the ability to connect technical strategy to business outcomes.
  • Preferred: BS in Computer Science plus 12 years of experience, or an MS in Computer Science plus 10 years of experience.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of current AI tools for engineering.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies.
  • Preferred: Experience with Azure, GCP, or WCNP.

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