(USA) Staff, Software Engineer
In short. (USA) Staff, Software Engineer at Walmart: a full-time lead or staff-level role, on-site in Sunnyvale, CA. Posted salary: $143K – $286K. Asks for 10+ years of experience. Skills mentioned: Machine learning, Product roadmapping, Kubernetes, Web accessibility (WCAG). Posted Oct 26, 2026, checked on the employer's site 1 hour ago.
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Summary
We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help define and evolve Walmart’s enterprise storage strategy across block, file, object, and cloud-native storage platforms. In this role, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for designing resilient storage architectures, driving platform modernization, improving reliability and performance, and enabling self-service storage capabilities for engineering teams across Walmart.
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Position Summary
The (USA) Staff, Software Engineer plays a critical role in delivering scalable platform capabilities and driving the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. This position applies cloud-native architecture principles to enhance system resilience and agility while integrating AI/ML components to advance intelligent automation. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration across teams to ensure high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives. The engineer proactively improves processes and tools, supports engineering excellence, and contributes to the continuous evolution of platform and product capabilities.About the team:
The Enterprise Storage Platform team, part of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise and Cloud organization, designs, engineers, and operates the next-generation storage infrastructure that powers Walmart’s mission-critical applications, data platforms, cloud services, and Kubernetes workloads atmulti-petabyte scale.
We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help define and evolve Walmart’s enterprise storage strategy across block, file, object, and cloud-native storage platforms. In this role, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for designing resilient storage architectures, driving platform modernization, improving reliability and performance, and enabling self-service storage capabilities for engineering teams across Walmart.
What you'll do
- Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of enterprise-scale storage platforms across block, file, object, and cloud-native storage services.
- Define storage platform strategy, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and multi-year modernization initiatives aligned to business growth and platform needs.
- Design highly available, resilient, scalable, and secure storage solutions supporting mission-critical workloads across on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.
- Establish data-driven models to balance performance, resiliency, scalability, utilization, and cost across enterprise storage platforms.
- Develop AI-powered remediation workflows and operational copilots that improve incident diagnosis, root cause analysis, and infrastructure recovery.
- Lead root cause analysis for critical production incidents and implement long-term architectural improvements to prevent recurrence.
What you'll bring:
- 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, and operating enterprise storage platforms in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Deep hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST Data, Cohesity, Dell PowerScale, or similar technologies.
- Strong architectural understanding of SAN, NAS, object storage, and distributed storage systems, including FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, and S3-based platforms.
- Proven experience supporting multi-petabyte storage environments with demanding availability, scalability, resiliency, and performance requirements.
- Strong expertise in storage architecture, performance engineering, workload characterization, capacity planning, and troubleshooting complex production infrastructure issues.
- Deep understanding of data protection technologies, including snapshots, replication, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber-resiliency architectures.
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.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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
1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of AmericaWalmart 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.Opens Walmart's own application page. No sign-up on Sudo Get Job.
