Position Summary
The Identity team is geographically distributed in the tech hubs across the U.S. and in India. We aim to secure a user's account while providing the lowest friction possible for them as they go about their business on the Walmart offerings.
As a Staff Engineer, you will set the tone of engineering excellence and drive processes and standards within the team. You will lead the design of complex software changes and take on the development of exciting new features. In addition, you will partner with your senior and junior teammates throughout the software development lifecycle to cultivate a reciprocal learning environment from development to debugging and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
- Provide technical leadership and use engineering best practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide projects.
- Demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
- Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
- Work with Walmart's Web Platform community to drive improvement to the overall foundation on which Walmart.com stands.
- Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, product quality, and efficiency.
- Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development, product, and business teams.
- Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are set up with the standard automated build and release processes and deliver with quality and reliability.
- Build, leverage, and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
- Monitor the health of web pages, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team.
- Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of experience leading design and implementation of high-performance edge systems.
- At least 5 years of working in Java and Javascript.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Strong problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail.
About Walmart Global Tech
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 are people-led and tech-empowered. 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 that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose, and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, and 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 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
- We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
Primary Location
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
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