{"id":689945,"url":"https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer","title":"(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer","company":{"id":236,"name":"Walmart","domain":"walmart.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/walmart","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":321,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.093,"repost_share":0.003,"time_to_fill_p50_days":5,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":169000,"max":338000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":338000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Envoy","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Istio","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"Service Mesh","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-08T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T10:32:53Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":39,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":39},"description":"Position Summary...\nJoin Walmart as a Distinguished Software Engineer, leading the design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI-powered systems that drive operational excellence and innovation. You will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of our Microservices Platform. Your responsibilities will include improving our Service Mesh and Service Registry, debugging software applications, and ensuring optimal system performance. Collaborating with Fellows and software architects, you will help to transform requirements into software design, adhering to our architectural standards. Mentorship and innovation will be key aspects of your role, as well as ensuring that our engineering efforts align with strategic objectives.About the team:\nThe Walmart Runtime Platform Core Services - PRISM team leads advanced technology initiatives, including Microservices platform, AgenticAI, and Unified Identity projects. This team designs and operates systems handling millions of requests per second, ensuring seamless scalability, robust performance, security, and resiliency. Focused on cloud-native architecture and AI-powered solutions, the team drives innovation and operational excellence across Walmart’s global ecosystem. Members collaborate to develop scalable platforms, optimize system reliability, and mentor peers, fostering continuous improvement and technical leadership to support Walmart’s evolving technology landscape.\nWhat you'll do...\nMicroservices Platform Development: Lead development and implementation of our microservices platform projects to enhance the overall efficiency of our service-to-service communication.\nService Mesh Enhancement: Make service-to-service and agentic AI communication visible and reliable.\nService Registry Management: Oversee the service registry, a global control plane to control all services within the Walmart network.\nIstio and Envoy Development: Utilize Istio service mesh, and Envoy, a high-performance proxy, to manage traffic flows between microservices and AI agents and enforce access policies, and aggregate telemetry data.\nMentorship and Innovation: Provide guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of innovation and strategic thinking within the team\n What you'll bring:\nExtensive experience in system-level technical leadership, delivering scalable, reliable cloud-native software and AI-powered systems.\nExperience with network stacks, including thorough understanding of HTTP/s, TCP, UDP, TLS / mTLS, etc.\nMastery of at least one of :: Java, C++, Golang, Rust\nExperience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes\nFamiliarity with cloud native environments such as Google Cloud and Azure.\nKnowledge of microservice architecture patterns and best practices.\nFamiliarity of Service Mesh or Sidecar pattern, including technology stack such as Istio, Envoy\nExperience with API design and development\nMentorship skills fostering engineering excellence and innovation across teams.\nProblem-solving capabilities with a focus on optimizing systems and reducing operational friction.\nAt Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.\nYou will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.\nFor information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.\nLive Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. \nEligibility 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. \nFor information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.\nSunnyvale, California US-11657: The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00\nBentonville, Arkansas US-30095: The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00\nAdditional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.\nAdditional compensation for certain positions may also include : \n- Stock\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 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 8 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 4 years' 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...\n1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, 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. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6618,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T00:51:48Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-11T21:11:02Z"},{"event":"restore","at":"2026-09-14T20:44:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":9,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.245,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":39,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":338000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T19:13:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2452,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":236},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=236"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwalmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwalmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwalmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/walmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwalmart-usa-distinguished-software-engineer"}]}