(USA) Staff, Data Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. Walmart scores A on the Alion truth index.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Role summary:Join Walmart Global Tech's Global Data Foundations (GDF) team to build the next generation of Supply Chain Automation and Enterprise Intelligence platforms, including Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance, and AI-driven warehouse and transportation solutions. You'll help develop large-scale systems that transform real-time automation, robotics, IoT, sensor, SCADA, and maintenance data into actionable intelligence that improves operational efficiency, asset reliability, throughput, and decision-making across Walmart's fulfillment and distribution network. Working at the intersection of data/software engineering, and AI-powered delivery, you'll help enable real-time operational visibility, predictive insights, and autonomous supply chain capabilities that power one of the world's largest automated logistics ecosystems.
About the team:
Global Data Foundations E2E Supply Chain Automation team is responsible for building Walmart's enterprise platform for warehouse automation intelligence. The team enables Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance, Computer Vision, robotics telemetry, IoT analytics, and operational intelligence solutions by integrating data from various automation platforms across supply chain warehouse and transportation next gen applications. Our mission is to create a unified intelligence layer that enables real-time visibility, predictive insights, and scalable AI-powered automation across Walmart's supply chain ecosystem.
What you'll do:
- Build and scale enterprise platforms that power Walmart's Supply Chain Automation initiatives, including Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance, warehouse intelligence, and operational analytics.
- Develop high-performance data products, APIs, microservices, and user-facing applications that process large-scale automation, robotics, IoT, sensor, and operational data.
- Partner with product, operations, and business teams to solve complex supply chain challenges using data, software, and AI.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, and prompt-driven engineering practices to accelerate innovation while driving platform reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence across business-critical systems.
What you'll bring:
- Strong experience building large-scale distributed data and software platforms using technologies such as Spark, BigQuery, Java, Python, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, React, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.
- Proven expertise in data engineering, backend development, event-driven systems, real-time data processing, and scalable application design.
- Experience working with high-volume IoT, telemetry, sensor, automation, or machine-generated data is highly desirable.
- A passion for applying AI and automation to solve complex business problems, coupled with hands-on experience using AI-powered development tools, coding agents, and prompt-driven engineering workflows.
- Strong problem-solving, ownership, and collaboration skills with the ability to deliver business impact at enterprise scale.
At 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.
You 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.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live 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.
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.
Sunnyvale, California US-11656: The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09158: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related field.3 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics, ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud, Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field, 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.