Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
113 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

Staff, Software Engineer As a Staff, Software Engineer on the OneSource team, you will architect and build scalable, enterprise-grade solutions to serve as the backbone of sourcing and product development transformation. You will design technical architectures, build robust APIs, and own the technical foundation for MCP servers, including connection management and async patterns. Your daily work involves building and optimizing intelligent agents using DSPy and LLM frameworks while ensuring production reliability through monitoring and security. You will utilize Java, Spring Boot, React, Python, PostgreSQL, and Azure SQL to integrate with core tech platforms. The role focuses on creating a unified platform experience that provides deep data integration and intelligent automation to reduce manual effort and errors across global markets, ultimately powering agentic sourcing and product development workflows.

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 and own the technical architecture for scalable, enterprise-grade solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and React.
  • Evolve the MCP server's technical foundation including connection management, async patterns, and service boundaries.
  • Build robust APIs and integrations to enable seamless data flow across core tech platforms.
  • Develop and optimize intelligent agents using DSPy and LLM frameworks with evaluation pipelines.
  • Manage operational excellence including deployment, configuration, monitoring, and security for production reliability.
  • Set engineering standards through code reviews, mentorship, and hands-on ownership of critical components.
  • Coordinate dependencies with external teams and bridge technical requirements with business goals.

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.
  • 10+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms.
  • Deep expertise in Python, Java, Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL / Azure SQL and modern agentic technologies (LLMs, MCPs).
  • Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, enterprise-grade solutions integrating with Walmart’s core tech platforms.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives that drive platform unification, data integration, operational excellence, alerting and monitoring / tracing.
  • 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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