Sam's Club
Distinguished, Software Engineer – Sam's Club
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Distinguished, Software Engineer
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Sam's Club . This range is provided by Sam's Club. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base Pay Range $169,000.00/yr - $338,000.00/yr
Position Summary Sam’s Club Membership Lifecycle Engineering powers the end-to-end member journey - Join, Engage, Renew and Grow across web, app, and club experiences. The platform spans five core domains: Member Profile, Subscriptions & Renewals, Growth, Platform & Integrations, and Data & Insights. We build and evolve a modern membership stack (API Gateway, GraphQL, orchestration, eventing, data pipelines, observability) for reliability, scale, developer velocity, and an AI/agent-ready future.
What You'll Do
Set the target architecture across lifecycle domains (Profile & Access; Subscriptions & Renewals; Growth & Credit; Platform & Integrations), including reference architectures, guardrails, and roadmap for an AI/agent-ready platform.
Modernize core membership services (GraphQL, gateway, orchestration, eventing; PCI-aware billing/retry flows) to unlock modern and flexible membership modeling while improving uptime and cost efficiency.
Raise reliability & speed by defining SLAs/SLOs and engineering KPIs (DORA, SRE: lead time, deploy frequency, CFR, MTTR), driving resiliency patterns, and championing observability and data quality.
Accelerate growth experimentation by shaping APIs, data contracts, and experimentation hooks that enable rapid A/Bs and lifecycle optimization (join/renewal/churn).
Influence and up-level the org via deep design reviews, technical stewardship, and mentorship of Staff/Principal Engineers and EMs – multiplying impact across 5–6 coherent domains.
What You'll Bring
Proven large-scale platform design: microservices and event-driven systems, GraphQL/gateway patterns, and high-throughput, low-latency membership/identity or subscription platforms.
Subscriptions/payments acumen: recurring payments/billing, retries, renewals, and revenue-retention mechanics; pragmatic automation at scale.
Reliability & velocity leadership: measurable improvements to SLAs/SLOs and DORA/SRE metrics via architecture, automation, and operational excellence.
Data & experimentation fluency: contract-first data, quality governance, and patterns that enable trustworthy measurement and faster iteration.
Executive-level influence: clear storytelling that ties architecture to business KPIs (join rate, renewal rate, churn) and aligns cross-functional stakeholders.
About Sam's Club 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.
Benefits
401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans.
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. PTO or PPTO may be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
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 an education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates covering tuition, books, and fees.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’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.
Background in creating inclusive digital experiences, implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
Knowledge of accessibility best practices and experience aligning with Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Location 815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America
Seniority Level Mid-Senior level
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Retail
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Distinguished, Software Engineer
role at
Sam's Club . This range is provided by Sam's Club. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base Pay Range $169,000.00/yr - $338,000.00/yr
Position Summary Sam’s Club Membership Lifecycle Engineering powers the end-to-end member journey - Join, Engage, Renew and Grow across web, app, and club experiences. The platform spans five core domains: Member Profile, Subscriptions & Renewals, Growth, Platform & Integrations, and Data & Insights. We build and evolve a modern membership stack (API Gateway, GraphQL, orchestration, eventing, data pipelines, observability) for reliability, scale, developer velocity, and an AI/agent-ready future.
What You'll Do
Set the target architecture across lifecycle domains (Profile & Access; Subscriptions & Renewals; Growth & Credit; Platform & Integrations), including reference architectures, guardrails, and roadmap for an AI/agent-ready platform.
Modernize core membership services (GraphQL, gateway, orchestration, eventing; PCI-aware billing/retry flows) to unlock modern and flexible membership modeling while improving uptime and cost efficiency.
Raise reliability & speed by defining SLAs/SLOs and engineering KPIs (DORA, SRE: lead time, deploy frequency, CFR, MTTR), driving resiliency patterns, and championing observability and data quality.
Accelerate growth experimentation by shaping APIs, data contracts, and experimentation hooks that enable rapid A/Bs and lifecycle optimization (join/renewal/churn).
Influence and up-level the org via deep design reviews, technical stewardship, and mentorship of Staff/Principal Engineers and EMs – multiplying impact across 5–6 coherent domains.
What You'll Bring
Proven large-scale platform design: microservices and event-driven systems, GraphQL/gateway patterns, and high-throughput, low-latency membership/identity or subscription platforms.
Subscriptions/payments acumen: recurring payments/billing, retries, renewals, and revenue-retention mechanics; pragmatic automation at scale.
Reliability & velocity leadership: measurable improvements to SLAs/SLOs and DORA/SRE metrics via architecture, automation, and operational excellence.
Data & experimentation fluency: contract-first data, quality governance, and patterns that enable trustworthy measurement and faster iteration.
Executive-level influence: clear storytelling that ties architecture to business KPIs (join rate, renewal rate, churn) and aligns cross-functional stakeholders.
About Sam's Club 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.
Benefits
401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans.
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. PTO or PPTO may be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
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 an education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates covering tuition, books, and fees.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’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.
Background in creating inclusive digital experiences, implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
Knowledge of accessibility best practices and experience aligning with Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Location 815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America
Seniority Level Mid-Senior level
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Retail
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