Position Summary...
What you'll do...
The Staff Software Engineer leads the technical direction of the Sam’s Club Membership Platform team, which serves as the foundation for all stream-aligned sub-domains. This role is responsible for architecting high-performance applications, setting technical strategy, and establishing engineering standards that drive speed, scalability, and safety across the portfolio.
About Team:
What you'll do:
Design and develop large-scale, high-performance, and scalable software systems that meet performance, security, and reliability requirements.
Provide architectural leadership and define implementation details aligned with long-term business goals and technical direction.
Lead the creation and maintenance of technical design documents, ensuring alignment with scalability and maintainability standards.
Drive high-impact, cross-functional projects with visibility across the organization.
Manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables to meet organizational objectives.
Partner with architects and senior engineers to shape the broader technical strategy.
Mentor junior engineers, promoting continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
Facilitate knowledge sharing, system deep dives, and design reviews to build long-term team and platform scalability.
Identify opportunities to enhance the platform's capabilities through innovation and continuous improvement.
What you'll bring:
Experience leading teams and building scalable, complex microservices architectures.
Proficient in a wide range of technologies including Java, Spring Framework, Kubernetes, Kafka, NoSQL databases, and RESTful API development.
Advanced knowledge of distributed systems design, software architecture, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
Strong decision-making capabilities, with the ability to balance trade-offs in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Deep expertise in cloud-native application development, network architecture, and storage systems, with hands-on experience creating automation scripts for validation, configuration, and benchmarking.
A passion for staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, along with a commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and work effectively across cross-functional teams.
About WalmartGeneral/Not Function Specific
Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, opening more than 600 clubs in the U.S. and 100 clubs internationally. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners. Sam's Club employs about 110,000 associates in the U.S. The average club is 134,000 square feet and offers bulk groceries and general merchandise. Most clubs also have specialty services, such as a pharmacy, an optical department, a photo center, or a tire and battery center.
Future Ways of Working:
Our company's success can be attributed to our employees. While technology has allowed us to be effective while working remotely, there is no substitute for being in the office together; it helps to shape our culture, collaborate, innovate, build relationships, and move more quickly. We strive to provide flexibility in order to promote a healthy work-life balance but recognize that in-person interactions are important to our culture and shared success. We'll meet in person on a regular and purposeful basis. Benefits:
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 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.
At Sam's Club, 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, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. 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.
Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a company 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.
Sunnyvale, California US-11789:The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Sunnyvale, California US-11789:The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...
809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.