(USA) Staff, Software Engineer, Information Security, Non-Human Identity / Agentic Identity

Walmart

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(Usa) David Glass Technology Center Property Costs Ar Bentonville Home Office, US Posted 79 days ago $110,000–$220,000 / year
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TL;DR

As a Staff Software Engineer in Information Security, you will join a dedicated team focused on developing and scaling identity, authentication, and authorization capabilities for agentic AI ecosystems. Your primary responsibilities include leading the design and implementation of Non-Human Identity (NHI) platform services, ensuring secure patterns for delegated authority and least privilege access, and implementing continuous authentication and risk-based access control to evaluate trust at runtime. You will also build automation for agent identity lifecycle management and contribute to technical planning and mentoring engineers across teams. The role requires expertise in agentic AI architectures, cloud-native identity, workload identity, service-to-service auth, API security, and distributed services with a strong emphasis on Python or PowerShell scripting. Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP identity platforms, Kubernetes workload identity, and regulated industries is preferred.

Skills

Python Azure AWS GCP Kubernetes CI/CD API security Distributed services Adaptive authorization Policy-as-code Continuous authentication Risk-based access control NHI lifecycle management Agentic AI architectures Workload identity Service-to-service auth Observability Auditing Compliance controls

What you'll do

  • Lead design and implementation of NHI platform services for agent identity management.
  • Deliver secure patterns for delegated authority and least privilege in agentic workflows.
  • Implement continuous authentication and risk-based access control for runtime trust evaluation.
  • Build automation for agent identity lifecycle, including credential issuance and rotation.
  • Define observability, auditing, and compliance controls for monitoring agent actions.
  • Drive engineering best practices, including secure coding and threat modeling reviews.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to technical planning across platform teams.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience in building and operating enterprise-scale systems.
  • 3+ years of expertise in identity, authentication, and authorization at an enterprise level.
  • Deep understanding of agentic AI architectures and Non-Human Identity lifecycle management.
  • Experience with continuous authentication and runtime trust evaluation patterns.
  • Hands-on skills in adaptive authorization, policy-as-code, and modern authorization systems.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud-native identity, workload identity, service-to-service auth, and API security.

Market check

Salary context

This $110,000–$220,000 range sits above 45% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$234,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$164,250–$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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