Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $143,000–$286,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 84 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $176,200–$230,425 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $203k 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 · Staff Software Engineer

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As a Staff, Software Engineer, you will join the engineering team to design, build, and scale highly available, enterprise-grade platforms. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing architecture decisions, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring other engineers. Your daily responsibilities include developing large-scale, distributed applications, architecting high-performance systems for large transaction volumes, and conducting root cause analysis for complex production issues. You will utilize Java technologies, RESTful APIs, and microservices-based architectures. The role requires hands-on experience with open-source or cloud technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Solr, BigQuery, AlloyDB, or Spanner. You will solve technical problems related to high-throughput systems, scalability, and reliability within a retail and large-scale enterprise application context, ensuring solutions meet strict security, compliance, and performance requirements.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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Skills

Java Scala Kafka Spark Cassandra Elasticsearch Solr BigQuery AlloyDB Spanner Hadoop Hive GCP RESTful APIs Microservices CI/CD DevOps Distributed Systems Event-Driven Architecture AI/ML Platforms

What you'll do

Design, develop, and implement large-scale, distributed, and highly scalable applications and platforms.
Architect high-performance, high-throughput systems capable of supporting large transaction volumes.
Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains.
Conduct root cause analysis and lead resolution efforts for complex production and business-critical issues.
Establish software engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
Mentor and develop engineering talent by providing technical guidance, coaching, and code reviews.
Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Champion Agile development methodologies and contribute to continuous delivery and DevOps practices.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 12+ years of software development experience; OR equivalent experience.
12+ years of software engineering experience, preferably developing retail or large-scale enterprise applications using Java technologies.
8+ years of experience designing and architecting highly scalable, distributed, and high-performing applications.
5+ years of hands-on experience with two or more open-source or cloud technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, or BigQuery.
4+ years of experience developing and architecting high-transaction, high-throughput systems.
3+ years of experience building RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
2+ years of experience with Scala, Hadoop, Hive, GCP, or Spark Streaming (preferred).

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