
Senior 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
💰 $90,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and enhance services for agent identity provisioning, authentication, and authorization enforcement.
- Implement features supporting credential governance (issuance, rotation, revocation) and NHI lifecycle automation.
- Contribute to adaptive authorization and risk-aware access patterns, including policy integration and enforcement.
- Add auditability and traceability for agent actions by integrating logging, telemetry, and attribution signals.
- Participate in threat modeling, secure design reviews, and incident learnings to continuously improve posture.
- Improve platform usability through automation, tooling, and reference implementations for internal teams.
- Collaborate with Staff/Principal engineers on architecture and help drive operational excellence (SLOs, runbooks, on-call).
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production services.
- 2+ years of experience in identity, authentication, and/or authorization systems (enterprise or platform scale).
- Working knowledge of NHI concepts (workload identity, service principals, agent credentials) and lifecycle governance.
- Experience implementing authentication flows, token systems, credential rotation, and secure secret handling.
- Familiarity with authorization models (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC), policy-as-code, or centralized authorization services.
- Knowledge of cloud-native security fundamentals, API security, and service-to-service authentication patterns.
- Ability to design, build, test, deploy, and operate distributed systems with reliability and security in mind.
- Scripting/automation skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell) and comfort improving developer workflows.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work across engineering and security partners.
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. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringidentity systemsauthentication systemsauthorization systemscredential governanceNHI lifecycle automationRBACABACReBACscripting
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationoperational excellenceproblem-solvingadaptability