(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

What you'll do...

Job Summary: Join Walmart's Cassandra Platform team to design, operate, and continuously improve one of the largest distributed database environments in the world. This role combines production ownership with hands-on engineering focused on automation, reliability, and AI-driven efficiency. What you'll do:

- Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager, Cassandra Platform - Design and build automation to manage provisioning, scaling, upgrades, decommissions, and health monitoring of Cassandra clusters - Reduce repetitive operational work by developing internal tools and self-service capabilities - Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response and root cause analysis for production systems - Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across a large-scale distributed database footprint - Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics, alert quality, and engineering productivity

- Experience building backend or platform software using Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting - Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production environments - Ability to identify manual processes and replace them with scalable automation - Experience participating in on-call and incident response - Experience collaborating across engineering, cloud, and reliability teams

About Walmart Global Tech Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.

People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Bentonville, Arkansas US-30095: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Sunnyvale, California US-11349: The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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.

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.

2403 Se J St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America