Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 11, 2026

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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 990 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

The Staff Software Engineer joins the engineering team to assess software gaps, classify requirements, and design complex software solutions that align with business expectations. You will build minimalistic code for software components, create user stories, and convert high-level designs into detailed functional logic. Key responsibilities include building automation scripts for CI/CD pipelines, implementing telemetry features, and performing complex maintenance or re-engineering of legacy monolithic components. You will utilize a technical stack including OpenAI LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, Milvus DB, FastAPI, Flask, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio. Core competencies involve designing microservices, managing SQL Server and Redis databases, and ensuring reliability through pytest, SonarQube, and Grafana. You will solve technical problems related to high-availability, scalability, and system modernization for large-scale enterprise software.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 381 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Assess software gaps and classify requirements to anticipate solution risks and recommend corrective steps.
  • Create user stories and convert high-level designs into detailed functional logic and mock screens.
  • Develop minimalistic, scalable, and high-availability code while selecting appropriate languages and standards.
  • Build automation scripts for CI/CD pipelines, testing processes, and repetitive routine tasks.
  • Implement telemetry features and monitor application performance using real-time metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Execute automated testing, track defects, and perform regression testing to ensure software reliability.
  • Design and maintain microservices, REST APIs, and database systems for high-volume transactional data.
  • Perform system modernization, refactoring of legacy components, and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.

What we're looking for

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience in large scale enterprise software development.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 6 years of post-bachelor’s experience in large scale enterprise software development.
  • Experience defining architecture blueprints, decomposing systems into microservices, and identifying tech stacks using UML, draw.io, mermaid.js, and C4-PlantUML.
  • Experience crafting prompts for OpenAI LLMs and LangChain and building RAG applications with LangGraph and Milvus DB.
  • Experience designing object-oriented code and building asynchronous microservice systems using FastAPI, Flask, and Kafka.
  • Experience managing containers and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio.
  • Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing tools like GitHub, Jenkins, pytest, and SonarQube.
  • Experience with SQL Server, Redis, Cassandra, AzureSQL, and PgSQL query tuning.

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