3 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate ambiguous problems, prototype solutions, define scope and architecture, and present recommendations to senior and Staff-level engineers.
- Lead design reviews covering scalability, latency, reliability, security, and architecture decision records.
- Build agent skills, tool and plugin integrations, MCP servers, and AI-driven platform capabilities with evaluation and tracing.
- Define team standards for AI-assisted engineering work and audit AI-generated outputs and workflows.
- Own services end to end through design, coding, testing, deployment, infrastructure as code, on-call participation, incident response, and postmortems.
- Improve distributed tracing, observability, and latency service-level objectives across services.
- Collaborate with Data Science and Frontend teams on model-quality metrics, evaluation, and system contracts.
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through code reviews and documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 4 years of software engineering experience, or 6 years of software engineering experience.
- Production experience with Python and FastAPI or a similar framework; TypeScript and Node.js are expected, and Go is helpful.
- Experience with streaming or event-driven systems such as Kafka and with streaming-oriented data modeling.
- Experience designing cloud-native systems using microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and observability practices.
- Experience owning a production CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
- Production experience with relational or NoSQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and migrations.
- Experience with distributed tracing such as OpenTelemetry, latency and p99 targets, on-call operations, incident diagnosis, mitigation, and postmortem documentation.
- Strong software design, API design, debugging, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience building and shipping AI or LLM systems involving agent and tool design, prompt and context engineering, evaluation, and guardrails.
- Experience setting team standards for AI-assisted development and turning ambiguous requirements into clear technical decisions.
- Preferred qualifications include a relevant master’s degree plus 2 years of software engineering experience, familiarity with A2A and MCP protocols, agent frameworks, React, WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k), stock purchase benefits, and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off and/or PPTO, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Walmart-paid Live Better U education benefits covering eligible tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion through bachelor’s degrees and certificates.
- Annual or quarterly performance bonuses and possible stock compensation.
- Primary work location is Bentonville, Arkansas; the posting does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement.
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About Walmart
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.