Staff Software Engineer, Information Security

Walmart

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Location
Bentonville, AR
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98 days ago
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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, Information Security

As a Staff, Software Engineer, Information Security, you will join the Information Security Reliability Engineering & Operational Excellence team to lead the design and development of scalable, resilient platforms. You will build automation, observability, and AI-enabled solutions to reduce operational toil, accelerate incident response, and enhance system availability for critical security services. Your daily work involves designing cloud-native architectures, implementing Site Reliability Engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers. You will utilize programming languages including Python, Go, Java, or C# alongside technologies such as Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Ansible. Additionally, you will implement observability tools like Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry. This role solves the technical challenge of maintaining high availability and operational maturity for global enterprise security infrastructure.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

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What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable, highly available platforms to improve enterprise security services.
  • Develop automation and self-service solutions to reduce operational toil and improve engineering efficiency.
  • Implement observability, telemetry, and AI-enabled capabilities to proactively detect and resolve issues.
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements for critical security platforms.
  • Design resilient cloud-native architectures using infrastructure-as-code and modern engineering practices.
  • Mentor engineers and review technical designs to drive Site Reliability Engineering standards.
  • Utilize cloud and container security best practices to safeguard infrastructure and applications.

What we're looking for

  • Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and experience in software engineering.
  • Option 2: 6 years of experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
  • 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or DevOps.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C# to build scalable distributed systems.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Hands-on experience implementing observability solutions using tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience designing highly available systems, driving incident management, root cause analysis, and building AI-enabled engineering workflows.
  • Master’s degree in a related field and 2 years of experience leading information security projects (preferred); Security+ or CISSP certification (preferred).

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