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Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. \nThis is a full-time onsite role based in Sunnyvale, CA; remote and hybrid options are not available.\nAbout the Team:\nEvery time a customer opens a Walmart product page, in any of our markets, a decision engine works behind the scenes to choose the right seller, the right price, and the right delivery promise, shaped by what that customer cares about. That’s us.\nThe Buybox team owns the offer-selection that powers Search, the Product Details Page, and Recommendations. These systems serve high-volume traffic on a tight latency budget, so every millisecond and every design decision counts. Getting it right matters to customers, to sellers, and to Walmart’s business.\nWe’re a small team that works like a startup inside one of the world’s largest retailers. Ideas move quickly from whiteboard to production. Engineers own systems end to end, and AI agents are part of how we build every day. We like hard problems, honest debate about design, and helping each other get better.\nWhat You'll Do:\nDesign and build high-throughput, low-latency services that power offer selection and pricing at scale.\nBuild and evolve the streaming and batch pipelines (Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, Airflow) that feed our algorithms and AI/ML models.\nPartner with data scientists to take ML models from experiment to production, and measure real customer impact through A/B tests.\nBuild with AI agents and AI-assisted development, and help shape how the team uses them.\nLead design and code reviews, and help us move faster, from PR to build to canary deploy.\nBuild the tooling that keeps our decisions trustworthy: flip analysis, parity testing, and experiment dashboards.\nDrive technical discussions with product, science, and partner teams across Search, Item Page, and Recommendations.\nWhat You'll Bring:\n5+ years building production software, including 3+ years in Java and/or Python.\nA strong foundation in distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms.\nExperience building and operating microservices (REST/GraphQL) that are highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable.\nHands-on experience with streaming systems such as Kafka or Flink.\nExperience with a public cloud (GCP or AWS).\nComfort owning ambiguous problems end to end and driving design decisions across teams.\nThe ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike.\nPreferred Skills and Experience:\nExperience building production-grade AI/ML systems.\nExperience with experimentation platforms and A/B testing at scale.\nFamiliarity with BigQuery, Airflow, or ML pipeline tooling [e.g., TensorFlow/Kubeflow].\nBackground in pricing, marketplaces, offer ranking, or e-commerce.\nNode.js or React, for internal tooling.\nAbout Walmart Global Tech: \nImagine 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 experts 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. \nWalmart’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 connections rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates. \nBenefits: \nBeyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. \nEqual Opportunity Employer: \nWalmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - by choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being welcoming of all people. \nThe above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. \n#LI-onsite\nㅤ\nㅤ\nㅤ\nㅤ\n\nMinimum Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.\nOption 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.\nPreferred Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.\nMaster’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...\n815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. 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