Walmart
Position Summary
Build the Platform Powering the World’s Largest Retail Network
Walmart Global Tech is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of our next‑generation infrastructure applications platform—a critical foundation of Walmart’s Zero‑Touch Networking initiative. In this high‑impact role, you’ll architect scalable systems that automate and streamline how internal teams operate and gain insight into Walmart’s vast global infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams to deliver intuitive, intelligent, and resilient infrastructure tools—ultimately helping Walmart scale faster, operate smarter, and deliver better experiences to millions of customers around the world.
About the Team The Critical Infrastructure Automation & Observability team is rethinking how Walmart builds and manages infrastructure at scale. Our mission is to build a fully automated, intelligent, and self‑healing platform that enables infrastructure teams to manage complexity with speed, safety, and efficiency. You’ll join a team of experts dedicated to eliminating toil, embracing modern engineering practices, and driving meaningful transformation at enterprise scale.
What You’ll Do
Lead architecture and development of Walmart’s infrastructure‑facing applications that power automated network management, device lifecycle operations, and observability.
Design modern APIs and front‑end experiences to support self‑service operations across networking, SRE, and platform teams.
Build high‑scale backend services, orchestration engines, and visualization tools to deliver automation, insights, and control in a unified platform.
Champion platform reliability and operational excellence—ensuring observability, alerting, incident response, and 24/7 service availability.
Mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and collaborate closely with leaders across infrastructure, product, security, and operations.
Translate business and infrastructure needs into elegant, extensible technical solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
What You’ll Bring
Extensive hands‑on engineering experience
in designing and building large‑scale platforms (typically 10+ years).
Proven expertise in
full‑stack development , ideally with:
Frontend: React or similar frameworks
Backend: Java, Scala, or Golang
Databases: Postgres, Elasticsearch
Streaming: Kafka or NATS
Strong understanding of
infrastructure automation ,
intent‑based networking , and
platform abstraction .
Experience designing
APIs , orchestration engines, and developer‑facing tools.
Operational mindset with experience delivering high‑availability systems, incident response processes, and well‑instrumented services.
Experience with networking domains or systems of record (e.g., NetBox) is a strong plus.
Familiarity with cloud platforms like
Azure
or
Google Cloud .
Why Walmart Global Tech
Build and scale
mission‑critical infrastructure
that serves millions globally.
Work at the intersection of
software engineering, networking, and cloud automation .
Join a culture of
ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence .
Grow with one of the most influential companies in the world—at startup speed, with global scale.
Ready to reimagine how global infrastructure is built and operated? Apply now and shape the future with Walmart Global Tech.
Benefits 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 are short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. 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 the Walmart One Benefits portal.
Compensation The annual salary range for this position is $95,000.00 - $165,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and may include regional pay zone (RPZ) based on location and stock.
Minimum Qualifications • Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. • Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications • (None listed)
Primary Location 1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089‑1114, United States of America.
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have 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.
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Walmart Global Tech is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of our next‑generation infrastructure applications platform—a critical foundation of Walmart’s Zero‑Touch Networking initiative. In this high‑impact role, you’ll architect scalable systems that automate and streamline how internal teams operate and gain insight into Walmart’s vast global infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams to deliver intuitive, intelligent, and resilient infrastructure tools—ultimately helping Walmart scale faster, operate smarter, and deliver better experiences to millions of customers around the world.
About the Team The Critical Infrastructure Automation & Observability team is rethinking how Walmart builds and manages infrastructure at scale. Our mission is to build a fully automated, intelligent, and self‑healing platform that enables infrastructure teams to manage complexity with speed, safety, and efficiency. You’ll join a team of experts dedicated to eliminating toil, embracing modern engineering practices, and driving meaningful transformation at enterprise scale.
What You’ll Do
Lead architecture and development of Walmart’s infrastructure‑facing applications that power automated network management, device lifecycle operations, and observability.
Design modern APIs and front‑end experiences to support self‑service operations across networking, SRE, and platform teams.
Build high‑scale backend services, orchestration engines, and visualization tools to deliver automation, insights, and control in a unified platform.
Champion platform reliability and operational excellence—ensuring observability, alerting, incident response, and 24/7 service availability.
Mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and collaborate closely with leaders across infrastructure, product, security, and operations.
Translate business and infrastructure needs into elegant, extensible technical solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
What You’ll Bring
Extensive hands‑on engineering experience
in designing and building large‑scale platforms (typically 10+ years).
Proven expertise in
full‑stack development , ideally with:
Frontend: React or similar frameworks
Backend: Java, Scala, or Golang
Databases: Postgres, Elasticsearch
Streaming: Kafka or NATS
Strong understanding of
infrastructure automation ,
intent‑based networking , and
platform abstraction .
Experience designing
APIs , orchestration engines, and developer‑facing tools.
Operational mindset with experience delivering high‑availability systems, incident response processes, and well‑instrumented services.
Experience with networking domains or systems of record (e.g., NetBox) is a strong plus.
Familiarity with cloud platforms like
Azure
or
Google Cloud .
Why Walmart Global Tech
Build and scale
mission‑critical infrastructure
that serves millions globally.
Work at the intersection of
software engineering, networking, and cloud automation .
Join a culture of
ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence .
Grow with one of the most influential companies in the world—at startup speed, with global scale.
Ready to reimagine how global infrastructure is built and operated? Apply now and shape the future with Walmart Global Tech.
Benefits 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 are short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. 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 the Walmart One Benefits portal.
Compensation The annual salary range for this position is $95,000.00 - $165,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and may include regional pay zone (RPZ) based on location and stock.
Minimum Qualifications • Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. • Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications • (None listed)
Primary Location 1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089‑1114, United States of America.
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have 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.
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