Walmart Canada · 1 month ago
(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer
Bentonville, AR
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$169K/yr - $338K/yr
6+ years expWalmart Inc. is a leading retail corporation seeking a Distinguished Software Engineer to provide system-level technical leadership. The role involves designing scalable AI-powered systems, optimizing software development processes, and fostering a culture of excellence and mentorship among engineering teams.
DeliveryRetailShopping
Responsibilities
Owns the execution for specific services, platforms, or pipelines within a larger domain, delivering with architectural integrity and reliability
Translates the domain-level strategy into system-level implementation, facilitating alignment across engineering teams and platform stakeholders
Drives operational excellence and execution quality through technical guidance, code reviews, and strategic architectural decisions
Leads the design and development of robust, modular, cloud-native software systems and AI agents
Integrates external and internal AI/ML components (for example, reinforcement learning models, goal-oriented agents) for intelligent automation and user-facing experiences
Guides architecture choices that prioritize extensibility, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise standards and security requirements
Champions DevOps and CI/CD principles across teams, ensuring consistent delivery and operational readiness
Ensures services are observable, resilient, and performant with proper instrumentation, logging, and alerting
Leads incident analysis and prevention strategies to drive long-term quality and customer impact mitigation
Coaches and develops engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning
Advocates for high standards in design, testing, and delivery practices and mentors engineers on component-level impacts and system-wide goals
Promotes and models Walmart's cultural values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence
Identifies and addresses architectural bottlenecks, integration challenges, or scaling limitations across systems
Champions friction/toil reduction by automating manual processes and improving system developer experience
Continuously evaluates and proposes improvements in tools, processes, and methodologies to increase engineering velocity and reduce overhead
Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives
Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion
Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals
Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context
Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes
Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products
Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement
Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent
Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy
Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas
Qualification
Required
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
8 years' experience in software engineering or related area
Preferred
Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area
Background in creating inclusive digital experiences
Demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards
Knowledge of assistive technologies
Integrating digital accessibility seamlessly
Knowledge of accessibility best practices
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.
Company
Walmart Canada
Walmart Canada is a subsidiary of Walmart that operates a chain of more than 400 stores nationwide. It is a sub-organization of Walmart.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
Canada NewsWire
2025-12-18
Canada NewsWire
2025-12-03
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