Hiring: Staff, Software Engineer Company: Walmart Global Tech Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 10:43:33 Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Azure, Epic Systems, Event-Driven, GCP, GitHub, Kubernetes, Microservices, Snyk, SonarQube, Systems Design About the job Qualifications: •Distributed Systems & Cloud-Native Architecture Expertise •Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems — microservices, event-driven architecture, message queuing, and cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes/WCNP, GCP/Azure) — ideally in e-commerce or marketplace environments. •System Thinking Across Service Boundaries •Demonstrated capacity to reason across multiple services and teams simultaneously — identifying cross-cutting concerns (shared data models, consistency guarantees, API contracts, observability) and making holistic design decisions that improve the whole platform, not just a single service. •Technical Leadership & Multi-Squad Influence •Track record of driving technical alignment across multiple squads without direct authority — through strong communication, credibility, and the ability to build consensus on engineering standards, architectural decisions, and delivery trade-offs. •Working familiarity with e-commerce or marketplace platform challenges — seller integrations, order lifecycle management, international compliance, multi-currency handling, and cross-border logistics — enabling sound, domain-aware architectural decisions. •Strong orientation toward production quality — experience owning SLOs, leading incident retrospectives, building observability into system design (metrics, logging, tracing), and proactively addressing technical debt before it becomes customer impact. •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. Compensation: •$143,000 - $286,000 / year •Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!