Senior, Software Engineer - Data Systems

Senior Software Engineer

The Global Governance and Security Risk Management team at Walmart plays a critical role in safeguarding the world's largest retail ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of innovation and security, our team is responsible for designing and delivering platforms that enforce compliance, ensure secure access, building highly impactful and scalable solutions. We partner closely with business, product, and technology teams to embed security into every layer of Walmart's digital operations, enabling the business to scale confidently and securely. The team is also actively exploring and applying cutting-edge Generative AI and agentic technologies to drive automation, intelligent risk mitigation, and adaptive security frameworks across the enterprise.

What you'll do: As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead and participate in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide inputs on project plan; and providing updates to the project team. You will be more responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable full stack applications, including user interfaces, backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML integrations.

• Architect, design, and implement end-to-end full stack applications using modern frameworks (React, Angular, Node.js, Java, Python, etc.).
• Develop robust backend APIs and microservices, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for real-time and batch processing (using tools such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Airflow, BigQuery, etc.).
• Integrate AI/ML models into applications, collaborating with data scientists and following Walmart's AI/ML governance and security standards.
• Ensure all solutions comply with Walmart's Solution Security Plan (SSP), data governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring for production-grade deployments.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in software engineering, security, and DevOps.

What you'll bring:

• At least 5 years of experience as Software Engineer with strong development experience in Node, TypeScript, Java, Postgres, Azure Cosmos DB, Kafka, and GitHub and NoSQL, Python.
• Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, and message-oriented architecture.
• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment.
• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things to the next level and a passion for adopting the latest features in Kubernetes, Java, Node, Python.
• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments.
• Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.
• Experience coding in object-oriented programming with Java, Typescript. Experience designing and implementing REST API web services using Java, Typescript.
• Experience designing and implementing Kafka and implementing Azure Cosmos DB events processing (CDC).
• Experience writing Unit Tests, Functional Tests, and Integration Tests.
• Experience in AI tools to improve the developer productivity in creating applications.
• Experience in AI, Gen AI, Agentic AI, LLM's, creating chatbots etc,.

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in-office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Minimum Qualifications

Option 1: Bachelor'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. Option 2: 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related field

Primary Location

608 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72712-6207, United States of America