Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary...

As a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, you will lead the design and delivery of multiple scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role involves driving the full Software and Agentic development lifecycle, ensuring quality through system design reviews, and integrating cloud-native architecture principles. You will mentor engineering teams, influence technical decisions, and collaborate across functions to translate complex business needs into actionable solutions. Your expertise will support continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence, contributing to Walmart’s technology strategy and long-term success.

What you'll do...

About the Team:

Our team develops an agentic self-healing platform that enhances system monitoring by delivering intelligent, real-time insights through embedded machine learning. Focused on innovative software design and scalable distributed system architecture, the team supports large-scale operations with seamless integration. Members collaborate across disciplines to improve system reliability and efficiency, driving impactful outcomes via advanced telemetry and predictive analytics. The environment encourages continuous learning and the application of agile methodologies, software architecture, and automation to build solutions that proactively detect anomalies, identify root causes, and optimize performance for enterprise clients.

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver platform capabilities including infrastructure, pipelines, tooling, and ML frameworks aligned with roadmap milestones and domain priorities.
• Drive full software and agentic development lifecycle activities such as coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Apply cloud-native architecture principles to ensure scalable, resilient, and agile systems.
• Conduct system design reviews to validate feasibility and ensure alignment with architectural best practices.
• Build AI-driven applications integrating ML components and intelligent automation features.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and promote engineering excellence through documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex problems into actionable technical requirements and track success metrics.
• Continuously improve processes, tools, and products by embracing innovation and adapting to change.

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience 10+ years and software Engineer background
• Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture, including microservices, containers, and automation to build scalable and resilient systems.
• Strong experience in software development lifecycle management, encompassing coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, and maintenance.
• Proficiency in API design, software prototyping, and applying software design patterns for secure, modular, and maintainable solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI/ML components and agentic systems using languages such as Python, JavaScript, and C++.
• Skilled in data-driven decision-making to define metrics, optimize processes, and ensure engineering excellence.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design reviews to uphold quality and alignment with architectural standards.
• Effective collaboration and communication skills to engage cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, pto, health benefits, and much more.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Equal opportunity employer
Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities employer – by choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor'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.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India