# Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary... What you'll do... Role summary:The Principal Software Engineer leads the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving cloud-native architecture and distributed system solutions. This role oversees the full software development lifecycle, integrating AI/ML technologies to build intelligent applications that serve millions. Providing strategic technical leadership and mentorship, the position ensures alignment with long-term roadmaps and promotes engineering excellence. Collaborating across teams, the engineer translates complex business needs into actionable technical requirements, fostering innovation and continuous improvement while maintaining high standards of quality, reliability, and operational efficiency. **Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for this position** About the team: At Walmart Connect, the AdTech Engineering team develops advanced platforms and AI-driven solutions that integrate advertising, commerce, and data. The team addresses complex challenges such as automated media generation and next-generation AI systems to enhance operations for advertisers, sellers, and internal partners. Leveraging extensive firs

- **Id**: 1100073
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-principal-software-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T21:38:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T23:06:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8929
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce

## Company

- **Id**: 236
- **Name**: Walmart
- **Domain**: walmart.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/walmart>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 343
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.117
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 118000
- **Max usd**: 237000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1231

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T21:38:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,861 · green card filings: 870; Filings 12m: 2861

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.295
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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