Staff Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026. Walmart scores A on the Alion truth index.
What you'll do...
Position: Staff 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/technical needs. Assess software gaps 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 and applications. Track and analyze defects for the component or module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past software engineering solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the software application. Conduct complex maintenance procedures for software applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the software application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics. Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, and performance data and provide analysis. Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Assist in the design of software solutions such that processes and applications work in tandem for specific components or modules of a product. Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assist in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed software designs using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules or components of a product. Select appropriate frameworks, platforms, and environments for software coding and configuration and scripting. Help implement telemetry features by determining data/metrics requirement within the domain. Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks. Create and configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability, and high-scalability needs. Arrange software engineering requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), testing, or any other process across the domain. Translate customer requirements into test strategy. Select, introduce, and implement various tools for testing. Identify scope and method of testing for each requirement. Ensure that the test cases cover all the test scenarios for the software product/solution requirements. Help with the execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire product.
Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years of experience in software engineering or related area.
Skills required: Experience with object-oriented design and programming skills (Java, C and C++) and experience with multi-paradigm programming languages such as Python. Experience designing and implementing RESTful web services using Java frameworks such as Spring Boot. Experience developing and maintaining distributed backend services and horizontally scalable systems, including high-volume transaction applications built on a microservices architecture with strict latency, availability, and durability requirements in production environments. Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, including deployment, monitoring, and scaling of microservices. Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with distributed messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka and distributed caches like Memcached and Redis. Experience with relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning in MySQL and Azure SQL. Experience working with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, including data modeling and query design for large datasets. Experience analyzing and improving system performance under high load, including designing and executing performance and stress tests. Experience developing data processing and analytics applications using big data frameworks such as Hive, Spark, Airflow, and similar technologies. Experience writing unit and integration tests using JUnit, TestNG and Test Container and experience using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Helm charts to automate build, test, and deployment pipelines. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
Salary Range: $150,080/year to $286,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.
Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Walmart 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. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.