Software Engineer, Information Security; Agentic Identity

Location / Salary

Bentonville, AR: $110,000 - $220,000/yr.

Herndon, VA: $132,000 - $264,000/yr.

Regular/ Permanent salaried.

The Staff Software Engineer, Information Security, plays a critical role in designing and implementing scalable, secure software solutions aligned with business objectives. This position requires expertise in software architecture, continuous integration, and stakeholder management to ensure robust, high-availability systems. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional partners to analyze requirements, mitigate risks, and drive innovation while maintaining compliance with quality and security standards.

The engineer will lead efforts in coding, testing, and troubleshooting to deliver reliable products that meet evolving technical and business needs within a dynamic environment.

• Lead the design and implementation of services supporting agent identity, authentication, and authorization.
• Deliver secure patterns for delegated authority, least privilege, and adaptive authorization for agentic workflows.
• Implement governance controls to evaluate trust of an agentic workload at build and runtime.
• Build automation for agent identity lifecycle, credential issuance/rotation, and governance controls.
• Define and implement observability, auditing, and compliance controls for agent actions (telemetry, attribution, lineage).
• Drive engineering best practices: secure coding, design reviews, and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical planning, and influence standards across teams.
• Partner with platform, product, and security teams to deliver secure AI capabilities for the organization end-to-end.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating enterprise-scale systems.
• Understanding of identity, authentication, and authorization at enterprise scale.
• Understanding of agentic AI architectures and NHI lifecycle management (provisioning, attestation, rotation, decommissioning).
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native identity, workload identity, service-to-service auth, and API security.
• Experience building, operating distributed services with high reliability and strong security posture.
• Automation skills (e.g., Python, Power Shell)
• Infrastructure/CI security fundamentals.
• Strong system design, technical leadership, and cross-team communication skills.
• Preferred:
  Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP identity platforms and their workload identity primitives.
• Experience with Kubernetes workload identity, service mesh, or distributed policy enforcement.
• Experience building business-critical platforms in regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare, retail).

• Certification in Security+, GISF, CISSP, CCSP, or GSEC.
• Master's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity or related area.
• 2 years' experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects.
• We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
• The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

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.

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