
Staff Software Engineer, Information Security – Non-Human Identity / Agentic Identity
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bentonville • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the design and implementation of NHI platform services supporting agent identity, authentication, and authorization.
- Deliver secure patterns for delegated authority , least privilege , and adaptive authorization for agentic workflows.
- Implement continuous authentication and risk-based access control to evaluate trust at runtime.
- Build automation for agent identity lifecycle , credential issuance/rotation, and governance controls.
- Define and implement observability, auditing, and compliance controls for agent actions (telemetry, attribution, lineage).
- Drive engineering best practices: secure coding, threat modeling, design reviews, and operational readiness.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to technical planning, and influence standards across teams.
- Partner with platform, product, and security teams to deliver secure AI capabilities end-to-end.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating enterprise-scale systems.
- 3+ years of experience in identity, authentication, and authorization at enterprise scale.
- Strong understanding of agentic AI architectures and NHI lifecycle management (provisioning, attestation, rotation, decommissioning).
- Experience designing and implementing continuous authentication and runtime trust evaluation patterns.
- Hands-on experience with adaptive authorization , policy-as-code , and modern authorization systems.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native identity , workload identity , service-to-service auth , and API security .
- Experience building and operating distributed services with high reliability and strong security posture.
- Automation skills (e.g., Python , PowerShell ) and infrastructure/CI security fundamentals.
- Strong system design, technical leadership, and cross-team communication skills.
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP identity platforms.
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.
- Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringidentity managementauthenticationauthorizationcontinuous authenticationrisk-based access controladaptive authorizationpolicy-as-codecloud-native identityautomation
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcross-team communicationmentoringinfluencing standardsengineering best practices