Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps

Position Summary... What you’ll do... Role summary:
Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role drives the full software lifecycle, applying cloud-native architecture principles to enhance system resilience and agility. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate cross-functionally to translate complex business needs into actionable solutions.

By fostering innovation and continuous improvement, you will ensure high-quality deliverables that align with strategic priorities and support Walmart’s commitment to operational excellence and customer value.

About the team:
At Walmart Global Tech, the team develops highly scalable and reliable backend platforms powering the world’s largest retail marketplace. They handle massive volumes of real-time and batch data across the Walmart ecosystem. The team emphasizes cloud-native architecture, continuous development, and robust platform design to ensure resilience and agility. Members collaborate closely to deliver quality software solutions, conduct design reviews, and drive innovation.

They leverage expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark to build distributed systems at scale, fostering technical excellence and data-driven decision-making to support Walmart’s evolving business needs.

What you’ll do:

Design and build highly scalable backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot. Architect and implement real-time event-driven systems using Apache Kafka. Develop and optimize large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Spark. Drive architecture decisions around scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost efficiency. Lead system design reviews and define engineering best practices for distributed systems. Work closely with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to deliver business impact.

Optimize system performance through partitioning strategies, caching, async processing, and concurrency tuning. Mentor engineers and act as a technical multiplier across multiple teams. Participate in production incident reviews and drive long-term platform reliability improvements.

• Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture, including microservices, containers, and automation to ensure scalable and resilient systems.
• Strong proficiency in software design patterns, API design, and platform development to deliver maintainable and modular solutions.
• Experience leading full software development lifecycle activities, including coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, and observability.
• Ability to conduct thorough design reviews and debugging to uphold quality and alignment with architectural standards.
• Skilled in data-driven decision making and problem solving to optimize engineering processes and outcomes.
• Demonstrated capability in mentoring and technical leadership to foster team growth and collaboration.

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…