(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Role summary:

The (USA) Staff, Software Engineer plays a critical role in delivering scalable platform capabilities and driving the full SDLC, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations. This position requires expertise in cloud-native architecture, AI/ML integration, and database skills to build resilient, modular solutions. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration across teams . The engineer applies data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement practices to enhance productivity and will help modernize platforms, improve engineering standards, and deliver resilient solutions across microservices, batch processing, databases, integrations, CI/CD, observability, security, and disaster recovery and and deliver high-quality software solutions supporting Walmart's strategic objectives

About the team:

The GTA Core Platform team delivers reliable, secure, and scalable Time & Attendance and Well-being solutions for Walmart associates and leaders. The team manages architecture, integrations, databases, batch processing, distributed services, CI/CD, observability, security, disaster recovery, and operational standards supporting key functions like Attendance, Exceptions, Scheduling, and Payroll accuracy. Operating across cloud and legacy systems, the team ensures platform resilience, performance, automation, and data integrity. They lead architecture reviews, resolve complex issues, and enhance quality and security through automated testing and AI-enabled development practices, driving operational efficiency and business continuity.

What you''ll do:

• Define architecture across GTA services, microservices, batch, databases, integrations, scheduling, and infrastructure.
• Remain hands-on through coding, debugging, reviews, prototyping, and optimization.
• Lead Workbrain modernization, maintaining continuity.
• Design resilient APIs, event-driven workflows, secure CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Drive an AI-enabled SDLC through development, testing, code reviews, documentation, automation, observability, and support.
• Establish AI practices including oversight, governance, traceability, and data protection.
• Establish observability, SLOs, readiness standards, runbooks, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Partner across GTA, Time & Well-being, platform engineering, SRE, security, cloud, database, and release teams.
• Create reusable standards, libraries, documentation, and reference implementations.
• Mentor engineers and influence decisions through communication and leadership.

What you''ll bring:

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership across teams, domains, or organizations.
• Strong hands-on coding experience with Java or a comparable production language.
• Deep knowledge of microservices, APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture, and resiliency patterns.
• Strong PostgreSQL expertise, including schema design, performance optimization, administration, recovery, and high availability.
• Experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure, Kubernetes, WCNP, Kafka, and comparable technologies.
• Proven experience with CI/CD, observability, SLOs, incident management, disaster recovery, and change management.
• Strong understanding of application&infrastructure security.
• Preferred experience with Workbrain, Infor WFM, Cosmos DB, OpenObserve, Grafana, Prometheus, cloud migration, or database modernization.
• Excellent communication, technical writing, facilitation, mentoring, and stakeholder-management skills.

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