Distinguished Software Engineer

Walmart

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Bentonville, AR
Salary
$130,000–$260,000 / yr
Posted
85 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $189k
This role $195k
$114k most similar roles pay here $276k

This role pays less than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$234,875 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $195k versus about $189k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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 184 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $117,000–$234,000 across 180 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Walmart

At a glance

TL;DR · Distinguished Software Engineer

Distinguished, Software Engineer joins the Marketplace, Category Strategic Initiatives team to serve as a visionary technical leader focused on expanding strategic categories and enhancing seller experiences. This role involves defining architectural blueprints, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers while remaining hands-on in solving complex, high-complexity problems. The individual will build scalable, low-latency distributed systems using microservices and cloud-native architectures across Azure, GCP, or WCNP environments. Key responsibilities include driving technical strategy for cross-platform integrations, ensuring security and compliance, and translating business goals into robust platform investments. The role addresses the challenge of managing a high-growth e-commerce ecosystem where third-party sellers require tools for inventory management and pricing optimization. Essential skills include expertise in full-stack development, CI/CD automation, and knowledge of current AI tools to ensure long-term scalability and reliability across diverse marketplace capabilities.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Define architectural blueprints and engineering standards for Marketplace CSI initiatives to ensure scalable, reusable solutions.
  • Translate business goals into technical roadmaps and high-level design artifacts for large cross-functional programs.
  • Mentor senior engineers on system design, coding standards, and modern architectural patterns.
  • Remain hands-on in critical areas to solve complex, ambiguous engineering problems and provide code guidance.
  • Design and implement large-scale distributed systems focused on performance, security, and reliability.
  • Serve as a technical advisor to senior leadership to influence platform investments and strategy.
  • Drive engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, and robust observability practices.
  • Ensure all products comply with data protection, privacy, and security standards.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field with 6 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Alternatively, at least 8 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
  • Deep working knowledge of cloud-native distributed system development using Azure, GCP, or WCNP.
  • Experience building full-stack, multi-platform, large-scale, low-latency systems with microservices and distributed architectures.
  • Proven experience mentoring engineers, technical leaders, and architects while leading large engineering efforts.
  • Strong hands-on coding skills to address complex architecture and implementation details.
  • Proficiency in designing secure, scalable, and highly available systems with a focus on data protection and reliability.
  • Knowledge of current AI tools for engineering and web accessibility standards like WCAG 2.2 AA.

More like this

Similar roles

Distinguished Software Engineer

Walmart

Bellevue, WA 86 days ago $156,000$312,000
Azure GCP WCNP Microservices Distributed Systems CI/CD Cloud-Native System Design Observability Security Scalability
10+ yrs exp

Principal Software Engineer

Autodesk

Atlanta, GA 29 days ago $139,000$249,260
Distributed Systems Data Pipelines NoSQL Serverless API Design ETL Cloud Platform Schema Validation Search Relevance
8+ yrs exp Hybrid

Principal Software Engineer

CVS Health

Remote (Massachusetts) +4 63 days ago $144,200$288,400
Python GCP Vertex AI LLM MLOps Microservices RAG Vector Search React Angular CI/CD Pub/Sub BigQuery GKE Cloud Run FHIR HL7 SRE
10+ yrs exp Remote

Principal Software Engineer

Oracle

73 days ago $114,600$234,600
C Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture Python Kernel Programming Network Programming Unix Linux Elastic File System OCI HPC AI/ML
6+ yrs exp

Principal Software Engineer

General Dynamics

San Antonio, TX 55 days ago $119,000$161,000
DevSecOps CI/CD Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible Puppet Chef Python Java Go Bash AWS Azure Google Cloud Agile Methodology infrastructure-as-code OWASP Nessus Burp Suite Splunk
10+ yrs exp Hybrid

Principal Software Engineer

Snap Inc.

Bellevue, WA +5 52 days ago $276,000$414,000
Distributed Systems AI Tools cross platform development Software Design Debugging Performance Analysis Test Design Scalable Services
10+ yrs exp