Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart

Actively hiring

Sunnyvale, CA Posted 24 days ago $117,000–$234,000 / year

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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Imperium team at Walmart, you will design and develop highly scalable catalog services to serve millions of customers, ensuring consistent, high-performance decision-making across various use cases. You’ll provide technical direction, lead architectural initiatives, and drive complex projects from concept to delivery while translating business requirements into robust technical solutions. Your day-to-day involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting unit testing, debugging issues, and enhancing system designs for reliability and performance. The role requires 8+ years of experience in building highly available backend systems using Java, proficiency in RESTful microservices, SQL/NoSQL databases, caching technologies like Redis, event-driven architectures with Kafka, and ETL processes with Apache Spark.

Skills

Java RESTful API design SQL NoSQL Cosmos DB Azure SQL BigQuery Redis Memcached Kafka JUnit Mockito Mock MVC Apache Spark Scala PySpark Python

What you'll do

Design and develop highly scalable services to solve complex software challenges.
Provide technical direction and architectural leadership across engineering teams.
Drive high-visibility projects from concept to delivery, ensuring timely completion.
Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and architectures.
Enhance system designs to prevent recurring defects and improve performance.

What we're looking for

8+ years of experience building highly available backend systems in Java.
Expertise in designing and developing scalable services and solving complex system problems.
Proficiency in RESTful microservices, API design/development, and caching technologies like Redis or Memcached.
Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka and SQL/NoSQL databases.
Strong coding skills with focus on modular, maintainable, testable code and unit/integration testing.
Familiarity with ETL processes using Apache Spark (Scala/PySpark), Python, and SQL.

Market check

Salary context

This $117,000–$234,000 range sits above 76% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$203,940

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$139,050–$175,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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 495 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $117,000–$234,000 across 487 roles with salary data.

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