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Staff Software Engineer

Walmart Open
Sunnyvale Full-time Senior Engineering Leadership

At a glance

Senior Engineering Leadership role at Walmart. Sunnyvale · full-time · $143,000–$286,000 base.

SalaryStated by Walmart
$143,000 – $286,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from WalmartOur estimate for the market: $214,500–$270,827Median $255,000
The range includes the market median of $255,000 for senior engineering leadership roles in Sunnyvale.
Worked out from 25 postings that stated pay, median $255,000. Last updated Nov 5, 2026.
RoleEngineering Leadership
SenioritySenior
LocationSunnyvale
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$143,000–$286,000
PostedOct 29, 2026
Role brief

techroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Compare available software options with business and technical needs, then identify gaps against customer expectations
  • Flag risks during requirements work and recommend fixes, while shaping user stories and detailed designs
  • Track defects, investigate recurring failures, test code changes, and diagnose performance or availability problems
  • Monitor application metrics and logs, handle maintenance work, and assess whether requested changes are feasible
  • Build automation and testing plans, select testing tools, and check that test cases cover product requirements

What you bring

  • A relevant computer science or software engineering master’s degree plus one year in software engineering, or a bachelor’s degree plus four years
  • You have built REST services and scalable microservices with Java and TypeScript, including REST and GraphQL
  • You bring hands-on experience across React or Angular interfaces, application monitoring, and cloud-based NodeJS development
  • You have used automated test frameworks, Git, and tools for API documentation and web accessibility

Who this fits

This role suits a senior engineer who can work across software design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and performance analysis. The job is based in Sunnyvale, California.

From the employer

What you'll do...

Position: Staff Software Engineer

Job Location: 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Duties: Explore relevant software products and solutions from an existing repertoire that can address business/technical needs. Assess software gaps between the customer and business expectations and the existing software product and solutions. Classify the requirements into applicable types. Anticipate the solution risks and issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for software components and applications. Track and analyze defects for the component or module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past software engineering solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the software application. Conduct complex maintenance procedures for software applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the software application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics. Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, and performance data and provide analysis. Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Assist in the design of software solutions such that processes and applications work in tandem for specific components or modules of a product. Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assist in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed software designs using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules or components of a product. Select appropriate frameworks, platforms, and environments for software coding and configuration and scripting. Help implement telemetry features by determining data/metrics requirement within the domain. Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks. Create and configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability, and high-scalability needs. Arrange software engineering requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), testing, or any other process across the domain. Translate customer requirements into test strategy. Select, introduce and implement various tools for testing. Identify scope and method of testing for each requirement. Ensure that the test cases cover all the test scenarios for the software product/solution requirements. Help with the execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire product.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 1 year of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years of experience in software engineering or related area.

Skills required: Experience designing and implementing REST API web services using Java and Typescript. Experience building scalable micro services, using REST and GraphQL. Experience coding in an object-oriented programming language Typescript and Java. Experience developing feature oriented front-end components using React JS, Angular JS, HTML5, SCSS, CSS JavaScript and Typescript. Experience with monitoring tools including Splunk and Grafana. Experience with CDN and Akamai MMS for performance monitoring and optimization. Experience developing REST API web services using NodeJS for faster development and deployment under GCP cloud platform. Experience leveraging Cordova to convert and build native applications for iOS and Android. Experience creating API design/technical documentation in Stoplight. Experience building queries to store, retrieve, and manipulate data from NoSQL databases in secure and scalable standards using ORM. Experience meeting 508 compliance and web standards on every web instrument developed using tools including CCA, SortSite, NVDA and Axe. Experience building and maintaining user authorization after validation services using JWT and cookies at the browser level. Experience handling data from multiple streams to maintain the sequence and their dependencies by using the RxJs operators. Experience following test-driven development using automated testing frameworks including Mocha, Karma, Jasmine, Jest, and Protractor. Experience maintaining the code using version control system including GIT to track and manage changes to code. Experience utilizing Angular Material 10 wherever it is necessary to configure in-house widgets styling. Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or professional experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $143,000/year to $286,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives. 

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

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.com.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.




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.
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