Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps

Position: Staff, Software Engineer
Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks, aligned with strategic roadmaps. This role encompasses full lifecycle ownership of software solutions, from design and coding to deployment and maintenance, applying cloud-native principles to enhance system resilience and agility. The position requires technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration across teams to drive engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The engineer will engage stakeholders to translate complex problems into actionable requirements, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and secure software aligned with business objectives.

About the team:

The team oversees Store Fulfillment, a key application suite enabling associates to efficiently pick and package groceries for delivery and pickup. They manage engineering and site reliability responsibilities to ensure platform stability, incident response, and continuous enhancement. The team maintains production runbooks, dashboards, and integrates critical alerts with incident management systems. Their mission is to deliver reliable, scalable fulfillment operations supporting Sam's Club and other Walmart business units.

Leveraging expertise in cloud-native architecture, API design, and data-driven decision making, the team drives operational excellence and supports seamless store-related processes across multiple tenants.

What you'll do:

* Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

* Proficiency in designing, building, and operating scalable, resilient backend services (preferably in Java, Scala, Python, or Go).

* Experience with distributed data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka), messaging systems, and cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker).

* Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Open Observe, etc.).

* Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills in large-scale production environments.

* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across teams and time zones.

* Proactive mindset for identifying and resolving system issues, and driving continuous improvement.

What you'll bring:

* 10+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms.

* Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture, including microservices, containers, and automation to ensure scalable and resilient systems.

* Strong experience in software development lifecycle management, encompassing coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, and maintenance.

* Proficiency in API design, software prototyping, and applying software design patterns for secure, modular, and maintainable solutions.

* Ability to lead technical design reviews and remedial actions to uphold quality and alignment with architectural standards.

* Skilled in Dev Ops engineering practices to enhance infrastructure, tooling, and developer productivity.

* Data-driven decision-making capabilities to define success metrics and optimize engineering processes.

* Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions for long-term sustainability.

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,…