As a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart's Site Reliability Engineering team, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, applying cloud-native architecture principles to ensure systems are resilient and agile. Your day-to-day responsibilities include driving the full software development lifecycle from coding to deployment, conducting system design reviews, building AI-driven applications, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams to optimize processes using data-driven practices. The role requires expertise in microservices, containers, observability tools like metrics/logs/traces, strong SRE foundations including SLOs/SLIs, and chaos engineering techniques for fault injection and safety controls. You will work on enhancing system reliability through controlled experimentation and automation, contributing to the development of frameworks that support measurable outcomes and robust platform performance.
Lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities using cloud-native architecture principles.
Mentor engineering teams, promote technical excellence through documentation and knowledge sharing.
Conduct system design reviews to ensure quality and alignment with architectural standards.
Build AI-driven applications and integrate ML components for automation and intelligent features.
Collaborate across functions to define technical requirements and optimize development processes.
What we're looking for
Extensive cloud-native architecture experience with microservices, containers, and automation.
Solid Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background including SLOs/SLIs and incident management.
Deep expertise in observability practices such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems.
Proven ability to lead the full software development lifecycle from design to maintenance.
Strong skills in platform engineering, API design, and rapid prototyping for quick validation.
Demonstrated chaos engineering capabilities with fault injection and safety controls implementation.
Distributed systems knowledge including dependency mapping and performance tuning techniques.
Market check
Salary context
This
$143,000–$286,000
range sits above
89%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$120,500–$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
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Listed pay typically runs
$117,000–$234,000
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Python
JavaScript
Java
C++
AWS
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
Microservices
Containers
API Design
System Design Reviews
Cloud-Native Architecture
ML Frameworks
Terraform