(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

Actively hiring

(Usa) Isd Office - Dgtc Ar Bentonville Home Office, US Posted 41 days ago $110,000–$220,000 / year

View original post Log in to save

At a glance

AI generated

TL;DR

Join Walmart as a Principal Software Engineer for the Colony Platform within the AI & Data organization and help streamline AI-based solution development for associates. You will lead architectural decisions, drive scalable system design, and mentor senior engineers while balancing long-term sustainability with immediate business needs. Key responsibilities include defining reference architectures, implementing security guardrails, and building robust testing frameworks. The role requires expertise in Python, distributed systems, and AI/ML ecosystems, along with experience in observability practices and enterprise-scale software delivery. You will work on the Colony agentic AI framework, enabling complex workflows in a multi-tenant environment, and collaborate across product, governance, and infrastructure teams to drive consensus and reduce architectural fragmentation.

Skills

Python Docker CI/CD OAuth2/OIDC JSON_Schema OpenAPI Pydantic protobuf Kubernetes AWS Azure Google_Cloud_Platform PostgreSQL BigQuery Camunda_Zeebe Git Terraform Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Own high-impact architectural decisions and drive scalable, resilient system design.
Prototype and productionize advanced AI-enabled capabilities in secure environments.
Mentor senior engineers and elevate technical rigor across the organization.
Improve reliability and quality of end-to-end systems through comprehensive testing.
Lead development of core agent orchestration components for AI workflows.

What we're looking for

12+ years of experience building highly available, distributed systems.
Proven track record delivering complex, enterprise-scale software systems.
Strong proficiency in Python for library/service/tool development.
Experience with AI/ML ecosystems and observability practices.
Exceptional communication and consensus-building skills across teams.
Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and emerging leaders.

Market check

Salary context

This $110,000–$220,000 range sits above 38% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$234,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,000–$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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Walmart

Similar roles

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

(Usa) Isd Office - Dgtc Ar Bentonville Home Office, US 37 days ago $110,000–$220,000

Python Kubernetes CI/CD OAuth2/OIDC JSON Schema OpenAPI Pydantic protobuf Docker Camunda Zeebe Prometheus Grafana BigQuery Git SDKs CLIs Terraform PostgreSQL AWS Azure

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

(Usa) Crossman Respect Building Ca Sunnyvale Home Office, US 52 days ago $143,000–$286,000

Node.js Java Kotlin Git Jenkins Maven Google Cloud Platform BigQuery GCS Dataproc CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes AWS Prometheus Grafana Machine Learning Data Science

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

(Usa) Crossman Excellence Building Ca Sunnyvale Home Office, US 93 days ago $143,000–$286,000

Java SQL NoSQL Git Agile Scrum Kanban Jenkins Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis AWS RDS MSSQL Oracle Azure Google Cloud Platform

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

(Usa) Redbird Ar Bentonville Home Office, US 86 days ago $110,000–$220,000

Java Python JavaScript CI/CD DevOps Kubernetes AWS Docker Terraform PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis APIs LMS intelligent automation adaptive learning AI/ML

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

(Usa) Crossman Excellence Building Ca Sunnyvale Home Office, US 36 days ago $143,000–$286,000

Python Java LLMs RAG-based systems SRE Kubernetes Docker GCP Azure PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face Transformers MLOps CI/CD Prometheus Grafana ELK Chaos Engineering DevOps AWS

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart

(Usa) Crossman Respect Building Ca Sunnyvale Home Office, US 50 days ago $143,000–$286,000

Java Kotlin Python Go AWS Azure GAE Microservices REST APIs Scrum XP MySQL Oracle Cassandra Appium Selenium Jira Rest Assured Gatling CI/CD