Staff, Software Engineer- Search platform

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join Walmart Search Runtime Engineering team. This hands-on role requires exceptional coding skills, a passion for technology and engineering excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor a large team of engineers. You will play a pivotal role in defining and maintaining our technical architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability requirements and cost optimization.

About Team

The Search team at Walmart processes billions of queries across millions of products on our global websites and apps. Whether a customer is searching for a specific item or browsing through categories, our platform powers the intelligence behind product discovery. We leverage structured and semi-structured data at massive scale - drawing from catalogs, transaction logs, social data, and more. By combining cutting-edge information retrieval, machine learning, and ranking algorithms, we build low-latency, high-availability systems that directly impact customer experience and business metrics.

Immigration support is not available for this role.

What you'll do

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:

* Act as a technical lead to design, develop scalable, high-performance backend system and lead end-to-end delivery of core platform features and infrastructure improvements.

* Serve as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.

* Drive system design, code quality, developer productivity and operational excellence.

* Guide software engineers in building and delivering secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and cloud technologies.

* Drive availability, quality, performance, and resiliency goals with your team.

* Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Product, Business, and Operations to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software products.

* Direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing relevant information (issue, impact, and criticality) and directing actions as designated in the plan.

* Communicate effectively with peers and stakeholders at all levels.

* Help establish tools, processes, and documentation to continuously improve code quality and engineering standards.

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Science, Product, and Search Ops.

What You'll Bring

* Bachelor's degree in computer science and 6 years of experience or master's degree in computer science and 4 years of experience with building scalable, highly distributed, high performing, and robust Java applications.

* Strong foundation in system design, data structures, and distributed systems.

* Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, Spring framework, Web applications and distributed systems with a focus on server-side components.

* Proficient hands-on experience in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning Java application.

* Experience with search technologies (e.g., Solr, Lucene, Vespa).

* Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or similar).

* Proficiency CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Maven) and version control systems (e.g., Git).

* Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience in the search domain highly desirable.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.

People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and it's fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs:
Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity…