Walmart

Distinguished Software Engineer

Walmart

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Sunnyvale • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $169,000 - $338,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudGoJavaPythonSDLC

About the role

  • Lead the applied AI strategy for developer experience, leveraging program analysis, LLM integration, and predictive feedback systems to create deeply intelligent workflows.
  • Architect AI-powered systems that analyze code, surface insights, and automate high-friction engineering tasks.
  • Integrate LLMs, agentic workflows, and program analysis directly into the SDLC to improve code quality, reliability, and velocity.
  • Build adaptive, self-improving workflows using telemetry, developer behavior signals, and continuous feedback loops.
  • Define and drive technical strategy for applied ML across Developer Experience, influencing standards, governance, architecture, and platform direction.
  • Partner with product, platform, and research teams to operationalize cutting-edge ML capabilities into scalable enterprise services.
  • Mentor senior engineers and serve as a trusted technical authority on intelligent developer tooling across Walmart Global Tech.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area, or 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • Deep expertise in applying AI, and program analysis to enhance software development workflows.
  • Experience building ML- or LLM-powered developer tools, code intelligence systems, or agentic development workflows.
  • Proven ability to architect enterprise-scale AI systems that automate or accelerate engineering tasks.
  • Strong programming and systems engineering skills (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
  • Hands-on experience in CI/CD, cloud platforms, and developer tooling.
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities, including mentoring senior engineers and partnering effectively across product, platform, and research teams.
Benefits
  • 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.
  • Education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering high school completion to bachelor's degrees with tuition, books, and fees paid for by Walmart.

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Hard skills
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Soft skills
communicationleadershipmentoringcollaboration