Senior Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$117,000–$234,000 / yr
Posted
71 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $169k
This role $176k
$103k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays less than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$188,277 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $176k versus about $169k 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 184 open roles on FindRole.

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

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

Senior, Software Engineer As part of the Derivator Platform team within the Catalog organization, you will join a platform engineering group building a high-scale, domain-agnostic rule derivation system. You will architect, build, and operate distributed microservices and data pipelines that process hundreds of thousands of events per second to power critical supply chain decisions regarding inventory, fulfillment, and shipping restrictions. Your daily work involves developing a rule execution engine, managing high-throughput Kafka event streaming pipelines, and optimizing data persistence layers using Cassandra and BigQuery. You will also execute large-scale Apache Spark batch processing jobs on cloud infrastructure. The role requires proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes while actively integrating AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot into the engineering workflow. This position solves complex technical challenges involving real-time event processing and multi-domain rule evaluation to ensure system reliability and observability.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Design and build distributed microservices for data processing, rule evaluation, and notification systems on private cloud infrastructure.
  • Manage high-throughput Kafka event streaming pipelines with focus on fault isolation, multi-region routing, and auto-scaling.
  • Develop a domain-agnostic rule execution engine to support various supply chain functions like inventory and fulfillment.
  • Optimize data persistence and indexing layers using Cassandra, BigQuery, and search indexes for real-time processing.
  • Execute large-scale Apache Spark batch jobs to identify and process millions of records following rule changes.
  • Implement simulation and sweep capabilities to evaluate the business impact of rules before they are deployed.
  • Integrate AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows for coding, testing, documentation, and architectural design.
  • Ensure platform reliability by implementing metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting systems to maintain 99.99% availability.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 3 years of experience or 5 years of total software engineering experience.
  • Must have 5+ years of experience building production-grade, high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Must be proficient in Java and Spring Boot for developing RESTful microservices and performance tuning.
  • Must have hands-on experience with Apache Kafka for event streaming, including producer/consumer patterns and partition design.
  • Must have experience with Cassandra for data modeling and BigQuery for large-scale analytical queries.
  • Must have experience with Apache Spark for distributed batch processing on cloud infrastructure.
  • Must be familiar with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or equivalent.
  • Must demonstrate the use of AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot in daily engineering workflows.

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