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Walmart

Principal Software Engineer – Tech

Walmart, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94087

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Position Summary Shape the Future of Global Infrastructure at Walmart

Walmart Global Tech is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the architecture and development of our next-generation Zero-Touch Networking platform. In this role, you’ll design intelligent, scalable systems that transform how infrastructure is managed across one of the world’s largest technology environments.

This is a rare opportunity to apply your engineering leadership and deep technical expertise to solve real-world, global-scale infrastructure problems—automating systems that power over 10,000 locations and hundreds of millions of transactions daily.

Note: “Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role”.

What you’ll do

Define and lead architecture

for core infrastructure automation components, including orchestrators, workflow engines, configuration managers, and auto-remediation pipelines.

Build and scale

intent-based networking capabilities

that abstract away manual operations and enable real-time, policy-driven infrastructure control.

Design extensible APIs and microservices

that empower internal teams through intuitive, self-service automation.

Lead platform reliability practices—ensuring high availability, robust observability, and clear incident response workflows.

Collaborate

with cross-functional teams (networking, SRE, cloud, security, observability) to align technical solutions with business needs.

Mentor and influence engineers

across the organization, shaping Walmart’s infrastructure engineering culture and best practices.

Who you are

A strategic and hands-on

engineering leader

with

10+ years of experience

building distributed systems or infrastructure platforms at scale.

Deep expertise in

infrastructure as code ,

network automation , and

intent-based system design .

Proficient in

Go ,

Python , and frameworks like

Django .

Comfortable operating in environments with

high reliability and uptime expectations

(SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations).

Familiar with modern DevOps tooling: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting frameworks, GitOps practices.

Experienced with

source-of-truth systems

(e.g., NetBox) and hybrid/cloud-native environments (Azure, GCP a plus).

Strong communicator and technical influencer with a track record of leading by example.

Why Join Walmart Global Tech

Build the

platforms that power the world’s largest retailer .

Work at

true global scale , solving complex engineering challenges with far-reaching impact.

Join a

mission-driven team

where automation, reliability, and innovation are at the heart of everything we build.

Grow your career alongside top talent in a culture that values

ownership, innovation, and technical excellence .

Ready to lead the future of infrastructure automation? Apply now and be part of the team shaping Walmart’s digital infrastructure.

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 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 https://one.walmart.com/.

Compensation The annual salary range for this position is $95,000.00 – $165,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also 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 Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location 1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America

Workplace Safety 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.

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, abilities, ideas and opinions—while being inclusive of all people.

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