Principal, Software Engineer

Position: (USA) Principal, Software Engineer
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What you'll do...

Role summary:

We are transforming how we solve challenging business and technical problems in Growth Tech by maximizing agentic development tools. We will use AI coding agents extensively across plan, spec, design, implementation, testing, refactoring, documentation, and operational workflows while developing practical standards for building scalable, reliable, secure production systems.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer who can ship high-quality systems with Agentic coding tools. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design, prototype, build, deploy, and improve next-generation intelligent systems that blend software, models, and automation into cohesive, adaptive platforms.

About the team:

Our team operates at the intersection of software engineering, data, AI systems, and rapid experimentation. We develop platforms that enable intelligent automation at scale, including agent orchestration and customer-facing AI solutions.

Emphasizing iteration speed and practical impact, we build adaptive systems that learn from usage. The work involves navigating ambiguous problem spaces, defining patterns while building scalable, reliable, and secure production-grade software. This collaborative environment fosters innovation and continuous improvement to solve complex business and technical challenges in the growth technology space.

What you'll do:
Partner with business, product and engineering teams to deeply understand the problem. Rapid prototype, design, implement, test, evaluate, deploy and improve software solutions that solves challenging business and technical problems. Use agentic coding tools , frameworks and techniques such as MCP, A2A, ADK, and frameworks to accelerate development. Improve outcomes through feedback-driven workflows using real-world signals Contribute to multi-agent workflows with coordination, delegation, and dynamic task execution.

Ensure operational excellence and build observability, debugging, and traceability in AI-driven systems. Mentor, lead the team, establish best practices for AI-native application development. Lead the knowledge sharing and training of the rest of the organization on AI-native application development. What you'll bring:
Expertise in using Agentic coding tools and frameworks to build production systems. Skilled in working in open-ended problem spaces with evolving requirements Expertise in working with structured data, workflows, with an emphasis on building high quality, scalable solutions. Skilled in working across technical and non-technical teams to translate needs into practical outcomes. Strong ownership mindset with a focus on shipping, learning, and improving systems continuously.

Preferred Qualifications Expertise working on agent workflows, orchestration layers, and evaluation processes. Expertise with protocol-driven systems (e.g., MCP or similar) Strong track record of building solutions quickly and iterating based on real feedback.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see  Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books,…