# (USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary... What you'll do... Role summary:Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role drives the full software lifecycle, applying cloud-native architecture principles to enhance system resilience and agility. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to translate complex business needs into actionable solutions. Emphasizing innovation and engineering excellence, you will influence architectural decisions and continuously improve processes to support Walmart’s technology goals and deliver impactful results. ***Sponsorship is NOT available in this role*** About the team: The Sponsored Search Ad Server team develops the core infrastructure powering Walmart Connect’s advertising platform. They build large-scale distributed systems delivering highly relevant ads with exceptional performance and reliability. Engineers collaborate closely with product, data science, machine learning, and infrastructure teams to address complex challenges in search, retrieval, ranking, and AI-d

- **Id**: 4074299
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-staff-software-engineer-42>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States, Bentonville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:49:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6720
- **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**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **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: 2026-11-11T14:49:29Z

## 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**: 0.859
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T16:06:07Z

## Pay

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

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