Software Engineer II

1395 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA

$104,000 - $202,000 / yr

Regular / Permanent

Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at , through one of our mobile apps or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in‑store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search and personalization.

• Design and develop internal tools and dashboards that accelerate incident triage and root‑cause analysis.
• Build automation to reduce mean time to detect and mean time to resolve for production issues.
• Integrate with observability platforms (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus) to surface actionable insights during incidents.
• Develop CLI tools, runbooks‑as‑code, and self‑service portals that reduce toil for on‑call engineers.
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure and application teams to understand pain points and deliver targeted tooling solutions.
• Contribute to incident response workflows
  , including automated alerting, escalation and post‑mortem tooling.
• Write clean, tested and well‑documented code following team standards and best practices.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to gain firsthand understanding of operational challenges.
• Champion SRE principles
  — reliability, scalability and operational excellence— within engineering teams.

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in an SRE, platform or infrastructure‑focused role.
• Proficiency in one or more languages
  :
  Go, Python, Java or Type Script/Node.js.
• Hands‑on experience building and consuming REST APIs and CLI tools
  .
• Familiarity with observability concepts
  — metrics, logs and traces.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or Azure) and containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Python ML/data libraries (scikit‑learn, pandas, numpy or similar).
• Understanding of LLM concepts
  — prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings and vector search.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops workflows.

• Option 1:
  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related area.
• Option 2: 3 years’ experience in software engineering or a related area.

• 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.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and commitment to Walmart’s accessibility standards.

• 401(k) match and stock purchase plan.
• Paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off and additional leave options.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Multiple health plans.
• Learning and development opportunities.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions—while being inclusive of all people.