Distinguished, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the team:

The Enterprise Safety and Security team under Global Governance at Walmart plays a critical role in safeguarding the world’s largest retail ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of innovation and security, our team is responsible for designing and delivering platforms that enforce compliance, ensure secure access, building highly impactful and scalable solutions. We partner closely with business, product, and technology teams to embed security into every layer of Walmart’s digital operations—proactively addressing vulnerabilities, aligning with evolving regulations, and enabling the business to scale confidently and securely. The team is also actively exploring and applying cutting-edge Generative AI and agentic technologies to drive automation, intelligent risk mitigation, and adaptive security frameworks across the enterprise.

What you'll do:

As a Distinguished Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and delivering scalable, intelligent platform solutions that enable innovation across our business. You will drive the technical vision and execution of enterprise-grade platforms while also leading the integration of advanced AI/ML and agentic capabilities to power next-generation user experiences. This role demands a rare blend of deep technical expertise, hands-on engineering excellence, and strategic leadership. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams—engineering, product, UX, data science, and business—to build resilient systems that are performant, secure, observable, and AI-ready. Your work will directly impact how we serve millions of customers and associates at Walmart and deliver measurable value at scale.

• Lead Security Risk Management Platform Architecture & Delivery
  Architect cloud-native, scalable platforms and backend systems using technologies such as Java, Scala, Kafka, and Spring Boot.
• Engineer AI-Ready Systems
  Design and evolve platforms that enable integration of agentic systems, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Build Developer Productivity Tools
  Implement reusable frameworks, APIs, and services to accelerate development, enforce engineering best practices, and abstract AI/ML complexity.
• Drive Innovation in Agentic AI
  Design and deploy AI-enhanced experiences and intelligent automation agents using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases (e.g., FAISS/Milvus), and transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, BERT).
• Mentor & Inspire
  Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the organization; foster a culture of innovation, learning, and accountability.
• Ensure Operational Excellence
  Lead performance optimization, production readiness, CI/CD, observability (Grafana, ELK, etc.), and secure deployment on cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  Partner with Product, UX, MLOps, and Data Science to shape roadmap decisions, influence technical direction, and deliver enterprise-wide capabilities.

What you'll bring:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including platform and AI/ML system design
• Proven leadership delivering large-scale distributed systems and enterprise platforms
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
  • Java, Scala, Spring Boot
  • React, React Native (for full-stack collaboration)
  • Kafka, message queues, event-driven architecture
  • Cloud platforms: Azure, GCP, or AWS
  • CI/CD, observability, containerization (Docker