Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Nov 11, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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The Staff Software Engineer will join the team to design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant payment capture microservices for a large-scale e-commerce platform. You will build mission-critical services handling diverse payment types, develop reusable frameworks for rapid instrument onboarding, and create event-driven asynchronous processing pipelines. Key responsibilities include managing data persistence, order lifecycle features, and production incident resolution. You will utilize a technical stack including Java, Apache Kafka with Avro, Azure Cosmos DB, Apache Solr, and Kubernetes. Core tasks involve deploying containerized services, performing root cause analysis using Grafana, and maintaining observability for financial event streaming. You must apply object-oriented design patterns and SOLID principles while providing technical guidance on distributed order search platforms and high-throughput financial transaction storage systems.

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Skills

Java Apache Kafka Azure Cosmos DB Kubernetes Docker Apache Solr CI/CD Jenkins Maven Git Grafana Postman JUnit Mockito Artifactory REST APIs Avro Cassandra SOLID Object-Oriented Design

What you'll do

Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant payment capture microservices for a large-scale e-commerce platform.
Develop reusable frameworks to accelerate the integration of new payment instruments like digital rewards and buy-now-pay-later providers.
Build event-driven, asynchronous payment processing pipelines using Apache Kafka and Avro schema registry.
Manage data persistence and state using Azure Cosmos DB with TTL-based archival and automated lifecycle strategies.
Implement order lifecycle features including refund SLA enforcement, driver tipping workflows, and product SKU resolution.
Deploy and manage containerized microservices on a Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform using declarative YAML configurations.
Perform root cause analysis and resolve critical production incidents during active on-call rotations.
Establish comprehensive observability by setting alert thresholds and authoring monitoring playbooks for payment services.

What we're looking for

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience in large scale enterprise software development.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 6 years of experience in large scale enterprise software development.
Experience designing and implementing distributed order search platforms using Apache Solr and SolrCloud.
Experience building event-driven financial data streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka and Kafka Avro with Schema Registry.
Experience with payment capture systems including deferred authorization flows, EBT/SNAP, and third-party digital wallet integration.
Experience with NoSQL databases including Apache Cassandra and Azure Cosmos DB for high-throughput financial transaction storage.
Experience with microservices-oriented architecture, REST APIs, and cloud computing services using Microsoft Azure.
Experience with container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, and Artifactory.

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