(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer - Walmart Global Tech

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

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

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.

Benefits and Perks

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.

Salary Information

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: 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

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 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.

Location

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

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

Walmart 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.

Key skills/competency

• Principal Software Engineer
• Infrastructure Applications Platform
• Zero-Touch Networking
• Scalable Systems Architecture
• Automation and Orchestration
• Full-Stack Development
• API Design
• High-Availability Systems
• Cloud Platforms
• Mentoring Engineers