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Distinguished, Software Engineer

Walmart
Bentonville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jan 2026
💰 $338,000/yr($156,000/yr$338,000/yr)

About the role

Position Summary...

Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers. Building the right technology foundation for developer experience is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are our Super Agent Wibey, several agents that help software teams across Global tech build for high impact business outcomes, Dev tools, Pipelines, cloud computing, and automation across SDLC . All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.

What you'll do...

Walmart has been able to transform developer toolkits by incorporating GenAI. we are enabling the creation and deployment of AI agents that automate complex workflows and modernize legacy systems. This role is a distinguished software Engineer, responsible for designing, building, and integrating these agents while ensuring robust governance and control. 

What you'll do:

  • Own the execution for specific services, platforms, or pipelines For developer experience.

  • Lead the design and development of robust, modular, cloud-native software systems and AI agents.

  • Integrate external and internal AI/ML components (for example, reinforcement learning models, goal-oriented agents) for intelligent automation and user-facing experiences.

  • Optimize systems and drive continuous improvement

  • Identifies and addresses architectural bottlenecks, integration challenges, or scaling limitations across systems.

  • Champions friction/toil reduction by automating manual processes and improving system developer experience.

  • Apply sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals.

  • Encourage experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement.



What you'll bring:

  • AI/ML experience including GenAI experience in last 2 years.

  • Hands-on delivery for quick prototyping and POCs.

  • Experience working with industry products for GenAI code generation, Agent builders, open source libraries, Agentic CLI and IDE tools.

  • Experience with developer workflows in enterprise with multi-cloud architectures.

  • Platform delivery with product mindset and customer backward thinking.



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.

Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed.  We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.  

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