Principal Software Engineer

Walmart

Principal Software Engineer leading design, prototype, and deployment of intelligent systems at Walmart. Collaborating across teams to solve business and technical challenges in Growth Tech.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeBellevue • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $110,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with business, product and engineering teams to deeply understand the problem.
Rapid prototype, design, implement, test, evaluate, deploy and improve software solutions that solves challenging business and technical problems.
Use agentic coding tools, frameworks and techniques such as MCP, A2A, ADK, and frameworks to accelerate development.
Improve outcomes through feedback-driven workflows using real-world signals.
Contribute to multi-agent workflows with coordination, delegation, and dynamic task execution.
Ensure operational excellence and build observability, debugging, and traceability in AI-driven systems.
Mentor, lead the team, establish best practices for AI-native application development.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Expertise in using Agentic coding tools and frameworks to build production systems.
Skilled in working in open-ended problem spaces with evolving requirements.
Skilled in working across technical and non-technical teams to translate needs into practical outcomes.
Strong ownership mindset with a focus on shipping, learning, and improving systems continuously.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits including 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringprototype developmentAI-native application developmentagentic codingdynamic task executiondebuggingtraceabilityobservabilityfeedback-driven workflowsproduction systems

Soft Skills

mentoringleadershipproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationownership mindsetadaptabilitycontinuous improvementteam coordinationdelegation

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in computer engineeringBachelor's degree in computer information systemsBachelor's degree in software engineering