The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
Employment
full time
Employer job description
From Walmart's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Role summary:
The (USA) Principal, Software Engineer leads the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, driving cloud-native architecture and distributed system solutions that support long-term business goals. This role oversees the full software development lifecycle, integrating AI/ML technologies to build intelligent applications serving millions. Providing strategic technical leadership, the position fosters engineering excellence through mentorship, collaboration, and innovation.
The Principal Engineer ensures alignment with roadmap milestones, maintains architectural standards, and drives continuous improvement to deliver high-quality, reliable software solutions that meet operational and customer needs.
About the team:
The International Recommendations Platform team develops a scalable, multi-tenant framework delivering personalized experiences across Walmart International sites. The team drives innovation in Machine Learning and AI, leveraging cloud-native architecture and software design patterns to build resilient solutions. Collaboration focuses on API design, system reviews, and data-driven decisions. Emphasizing continuous improvement through DevOps and software prototyping, the team ensures accelerated delivery and high-quality standards.
This environment fosters technical excellence and impactful innovation, supporting the development of advanced AI agents and cloud engineering solutions that enhance customer engagement and business outcomes globally.
What you'll do:
Lead platform engineering efforts to deliver scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling, and advanced ML frameworks aligned with strategic roadmaps.
Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and real-time data processing capabilities.
Architect and implement AI-enhanced applications integrating multi-step reasoning and model-driven design to serve millions of users.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, promoting engineering excellence and standardization across teams.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into clear technical requirements and measurable success metrics.
Maintain architectural documentation and ensure quality, reliability, and continuous improvement of software solutions.
What you'll bring:
Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership, delivering scalable infrastructure and reusable tooling aligned with strategic roadmaps.
Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture and distributed system design ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
Strong proficiency in software development lifecycle management, including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and incident response.
Demonstrated ability to architect AI/ML integrated applications using languages such as Python, Java, and C++.
Skilled in applying model-driven design and leveraging advanced development tools to enhance velocity and quality.
Effective technical leadership and mentorship capabilities fostering engineering excellence and innovation.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills to engage cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
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.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., 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.
Primary Location...
815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
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