# (USA) Principal Software Engineer

Position Summary... What you'll do... Role Summary As a Principal Software Engineer in Walmart Global Tech's Growth Technology organization, you'll tackle engineering challenges at a scale few companies can match. We're looking for hands-on technical leaders excited to experiment with AI, advance AI-native engineering practices, and discover better ways to build software. You'll shape architecture and technical strategy, turning innovative ideas into real-world impact across Walmart's massive ecosystem. This general interest posting connects qualified candidates with hiring managers across Growth Technology whose open roles align with their skills and experience. About the Team Growth Technology powers Walmart's revenue-growth businesses, including Walmart Connect (advertising), Marketplace, W+, and Data Ventures. Our engineers build technology serving an enormous ecosystem of customers, sellers, advertisers, and suppliers. We're using AI to rethink how software is developed, accelerate innovation, and explore new possibilities across our products. At Walmart, even small improvements can have an outsized impact because of the scale at which we operate. Our teams tackle some of th

- **Id**: 3885148
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-principal-software-engineer-12>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States, Bellevue, United States, Bentonville, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:04:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6413
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketplaces, Retail & Shop Systems, Online Groceries

## 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**: 143000
- **Max**: 286000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 286000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **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: 2026-11-06T19:23:11Z

## 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**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.787
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

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

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