Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart

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(Usa) Crossman Respect Building Ca Sunnyvale Home Office, US Posted 63 days ago $143,000–$286,000 / year

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TL;DR

As a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech in Sunnyvale, CA, you will lead the design and delivery of large-scale backend platforms and data processing systems, leveraging Java and Spring Boot to build highly scalable microservices. You’ll architect real-time event-driven systems using Apache Kafka and develop large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines with Apache Spark, ensuring high throughput, low latency, and extreme reliability. Your role involves driving architecture decisions around scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost efficiency while mentoring senior engineers and participating in production incident reviews to enhance long-term platform reliability. Ideal candidates have 12+ years of experience in backend and distributed systems engineering, with a deep understanding of cloud-native deployments and NoSQL data stores, and a proven track record of building systems at scale for retail or e-commerce platforms.

Skills

Java Spring Boot Apache Kafka Apache Spark Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD Cassandra BigQuery HBase Temporal.io Cadence Apache Airflow Argo Workflows AWS Step Functions YAML JSON Python Saga Pattern Jitter Exponential Backoff Circuit Breakers Rate Limiting Quotas Kafka Pulsar RabbitMQ

What you'll do

Design and build highly scalable backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
Architect real-time event-driven systems using Apache Kafka for high throughput.
Develop large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines with Apache Spark.
Drive architecture decisions to ensure scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
Lead system design reviews and define engineering best practices for distributed systems.
Optimize system performance through partitioning strategies, caching, and concurrency tuning.

What we're looking for

12+ years of experience in backend and distributed systems engineering.
Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark for building production-grade microservices.
Proven experience designing event-driven microservices architectures at large scale.
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including fault tolerance and consistency trade-offs.
Experience with cloud-native deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure.
Strong skills in debugging and tuning performance in production environments.

Market check

Salary context

This $143,000–$286,000 range sits above 83% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$131,650–$234,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$159,480–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 495 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $117,000–$234,000 across 487 roles with salary data.

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