Walmart

Staff Software Engineer

Walmart
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15 hours ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$186k - $286k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant payment capture microservices processing millions of transactions daily.
  • Build reusable frameworks for integrating prepaid cards, debit cards, digital rewards, buy-now-pay-later providers, and other payment instruments.
  • Implement event-driven payment processing pipelines using Apache Kafka and Avro Schema Registry.
  • Design data persistence, state management, TTL archival, and lifecycle management for payment transactions.
  • Develop order lifecycle features including refunds, tipping, SKU resolution, and restaurant partner ID mapping.
  • Deploy and manage containerized services on Kubernetes with configuration management, feature flags, and canary deployment pipelines.
  • Perform production incident root cause analysis and participate in active on-call rotations while improving MTTD and MTTR.
  • Build observability, alert thresholds, monitoring playbooks, Grafana dashboards, and payment-specific failure monitoring.
  • Create end-to-end regression test suites for quick-service restaurant order management use cases.
  • Provide technical guidance, code reviews, onboarding, training, and knowledge sharing to engineers.
  • Apply object-oriented design patterns and SOLID principles and enforce code quality standards.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of large-scale enterprise software development experience, or a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6 years of such experience.
  • Experience designing distributed order search platforms with Apache Solr and SolrCloud, including schema design, partial updates, incremental indexing, composite-key document management, and index maintenance.
  • Experience building financial event-streaming pipelines with Apache Kafka, Kafka Avro, and Schema Registry.
  • Experience with payment capture systems, deferred authorization, retry and idempotency logic, EBT/SNAP, digital wallets, and payment platform migration.
  • Experience with Apache Cassandra and Azure Cosmos DB for high-throughput financial transaction storage, archival, and lifecycle management.
  • Experience building microservices and extensible APIs for large-scale e-commerce order management systems.
  • Experience optimizing databases, indexes, Solr collections, and Cassandra schemas in high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Experience resolving production payment and order management incidents using Grafana, log analysis, and Kubernetes monitoring tools.
  • Fluency and specialization in Java, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
  • Experience with unit testing, automation, and code reviews using JUnit, Mockito, and Postman.
  • Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Artifactory, and Git.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Blob Storage, and Azure Kubernetes deployments.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for large-scale service deployment and management.
  • The employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k), stock purchase opportunities, and company-paid life insurance.
  • Paid time off including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
  • Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
  • Education assistance including 100% company-paid college degrees.
  • Company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and other benefits.
  • Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAzureDockerGitGrafanaJavaJenkinsJUnitKubernetesMavenPostman

Categories

Walmart

About Walmart

10,000+ employees

Walmart is a global omnichannel retailer that sells groceries, general merchandise, and services through Walmart and Sam's Club stores and online marketplaces for consumers and small businesses. Its model spans physical retail, e-commerce, advertising, and a vast supply chain, plus pharmacy, health, and financial services. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart Inc. is a public company on the NYSE (WMT) operating in the U.S. and multiple international markets.

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