(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Role summary:

The Cassandra platform supports hundreds of production clusters across critical retail and eCommerce systems. In addition to participating in on-call support, this role is expected to:

• Lead automation strategy to reduce operational toil and improve platform efficiency
• Drive architecture improvements across distributed database environments
• Influence reliability standards and operational best practices across teams
• Partner cross-functionally with cloud, application, and platform engineering teams
• Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on in technical execution
• Given the scale of the environment, cross-team influence required, and strategic focus on automation and AI-enabled operational improvements, the scope aligns more appropriately with Staff-level expectations than Senior-level.

About the team:

The Cassandra platform team manages hundreds of production clusters supporting critical retail and eCommerce systems. This team leads automation strategies to enhance platform efficiency and drives architectural improvements across distributed database environments. Members influence reliability standards and operational best practices while collaborating cross-functionally with cloud, application, and platform engineering teams. The team values technical mentorship and hands-on execution, focusing on scalable, resilient solutions. With a strategic emphasis on automation and AI-enabled operations, the team operates at a staff-level scope, delivering impactful platform capabilities that support Walmart's business goals and engineering excellence.

What you''ll do:

• Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager, Cassandra Platform
• Design and build automation to manage provisioning, scaling, upgrades, decommissions, and health monitoring of Cassandra clusters
• Reduce repetitive operational work by developing internal tools and self-service capabilities
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response and root cause analysis for production systems
• Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across a large-scale distributed database footprint
• Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics, alert quality, and engineering productivity

What you''ll bring:

• Experience building backend or platform software using Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting
• Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production environments
• Ability to identify manual processes and replace them with scalable automation
• Experience participating in on-call and incident response
• Experience collaborating across engineering, cloud, and reliability teams

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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock