USA) Staff, Software Engineer, Information Security

Position: (USA) Staff, Software Engineer, Information Security
Position Summary...
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Information Security Reliability Engineering & Operational Excellence team, you will lead the design and development of scalable, resilient platforms that improve the reliability and operational maturity of Walmart's security services. You will build automation, observability, and AI-enabled solutions that reduce operational toil, accelerate incident response, and enhance system availability. Working across security, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams, you will drive technical excellence, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices to deliver secure, highly available enterprise platforms.

About the team:

The Information Security Reliability Engineering & Operational Excellence team ensures the resilience, availability, and operational excellence of Walmart's critical security platforms and services. Partnering with security, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams, we design, build, and operate highly reliable, observable, and automated systems at global scale. By applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, modern observability, intelligent automation, and AI-driven operational practices, we continuously improve service reliability, accelerate incident response, reduce operational toil, and enhance the resilience and stability of mission-critical security services.

What you'll do...

• Design and build scalable, highly available platforms that improve the reliability of enterprise security services.
• Develop automation and self-service solutions to reduce operational toil and improve engineering efficiency.
• Implement observability, telemetry, and AI-enabled operational 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, review technical designs, and drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) standards across teams.
• Partner with security, platform, and infrastructure teams to continuously improve service resilience and operational excellence.
• Utilize cloud and container security best practices to safeguard infrastructure and applications.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or Dev Ops.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C#, with experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform), Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Hands-on experience implementing observability solutions using tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Open Telemetry.
• Experience designing highly available, resilient systems and driving incident management, root cause analysis, and operational excellence.
• Experience building automation and AI-enabled engineering workflows to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.

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.

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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, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.

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The annual salary range for this position is $ - $

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1:
Bachelor's degree in…