Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Walmart

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On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
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Full-time
Posted
112 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

The Staff, Software Engineer - Full Stack joins the Growth Tech Marketplace organization to serve as a technical backbone for the cross-border commerce platform. This role involves designing cross-service architectures, setting engineering standards across squads, and translating complex business challenges into scalable, production-grade systems. Key responsibilities include owning end-to-end technical designs for seller onboarding, order orchestration, compliance, and payments infrastructure while mentoring senior engineers. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes, GCP, and Azure. Candidates must utilize tools such as SonarQube, Snyk, and GitHub Copilot. The work focuses on solving international trade problems, including multi-currency handling, cross-border logistics, and optimizing tariffs to ensure a seamless experience for merchants and customers across mobile, web, and in-store channels.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design end-to-end technical architectures for cross-border trade systems including onboarding, payments, and order orchestration.
  • Establish and enforce coding standards, testing practices, and API design principles across multiple engineering squads.
  • Translate ambiguous business requirements into well-scoped, executable engineering plans with product leadership.
  • Define and own SLOs, SLAs, and production readiness for critical cross-border services.
  • Drive observability, incident response preparedness, and capacity planning to ensure platform resilience.
  • Mentor senior software engineers and lead architecture working groups or communities of practice.
  • Champion AI-augmented development tools to increase productivity across engineering squads.

What we're looking for

  • Option 1: Bachelor'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.
  • Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems including microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native platforms.
  • Ability to reason across multiple services to identify cross-cutting concerns like shared data models, consistency guarantees, and API contracts.
  • Track record of driving technical alignment across multiple squads and building consensus on engineering standards and architectural decisions.
  • Working familiarity with e-commerce or marketplace platform challenges including seller integrations, order lifecycle management, and international compliance.
  • Experience owning SLOs, leading incident retrospectives, and building observability into system designs.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 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).

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