# Principal Software Engineer

What you'll do... Position: Principal Software Engineer Job Location: 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Duties: Explore relevant software products and solutions from an existing repertoire that can address business and technical needs. Assess software gaps, updates, and modifications between the customer and business expectations and the existing software product and solutions. Classify the requirements into applicable types. Anticipate the solution risks and issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for software components, applications, and complex. Assist in creation of simple, modular, extensible, and functional design for the product or solution in adherence to the requirements. Evaluate trade-offs while designing across multiple software components in a product based on business requirements. Convert HLD to create detailed designs using mock screens, pseudo codes, and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules or components of a software product. Understand nuances of designing for disaster recovery. Design and create MVP to clarify requirement

- **Id**: 1171970
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-principal-software-engineer-4>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T08:15:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:04:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6677
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Education assistance, 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**: 349
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.117
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185587
- **Max**: 286000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 286000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Cassandra** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Db2** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kibana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Logstash** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T08:15:53Z

## 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**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.323
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 286000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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