# (USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary... What you'll do... Role summary:Join Walmart as a Principal Software Engineer to lead platform engineering initiatives that deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions and AI-enhanced applications. This role drives the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, reliability, and innovation in distributed systems. The position requires strategic technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to align engineering efforts with business goals. The successful candidate will champion continuous improvement, technical excellence, and the integration of advanced technologies to support Walmart’s evolving platform capabilities and long-term roadmap. **Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for this position** About the team: The Data Ventures team advances supplier-facing analytics by integrating data engineering, product intelligence, and supplier experience. They develop a centralized, role-aware intelligence platform delivering real-time insights into key business metrics. Their solutions enable dynamic, self-serve analytics and replace offline workflows with AI-driven forecastin

- **Id**: 4155789
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-principal-software-engineer-15>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Bentonville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:30:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8870
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, 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

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **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: 2026-11-12T10:30:30Z

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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