--- title: Distinguished Software Engineer at Walmart description: Walmart is hiring for the Distinguished Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $169K–$338K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/distinguished-software-engineer-at-walmart-inc-01a0dd32-6b2b-7c06-988c-2cfacf569b98 date: 2026-09-28T21:16:49Z og_description: Join Walmart as Distinguished Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $169K–$338K per year. Full-time role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/p8ykmn.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | Sunnyvale, CA | | **Salary** | $169K/yr - $338K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Sep 22, 2026 | ## Description **Role summary:** Distinguished Engineer is one of the most coveted technical IC titles at Walmart - and this role lives up to it. As a Distinguished Engineer on the Marketplace team within Growth Tech, you will be developing services that helps millions of sellers to onboard and do business with Walmart. You will write code, design systems, review architectures, and solve the problems that are complex. Your world-class expertise in distributed systems, API design, and platform engineering will be paired with a Al-forward mindset. **About the team:** The Marketplace team within Growth Tech drives critical services enabling millions of sellers to onboard and conduct business with Walmart. The Seller Onboarding and Item Setup team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the complete seller entry to Walmart marketplace journey. The team develops robust automated onboarding workflows, item setup and complex multi-platform integrations connecting cloud microservices, seller portals, and AI-driven analytics. You will own Architecture, design, development and delivery of Seller On-boarding journey, addressing distributed systems challenges, optimize APIs, and establish architectural standards to enable international marketplace growth. **What you'll do:** - Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production. - Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns. - Lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI-powered software systems and intelligent automation solutions. - Drive operational excellence through technical guidance, code reviews, and strategic architectural decisions. - Champion DevOps CI/CD practices to ensure resilient, observable, performant services. - Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning. - Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks, automate manual processes, and improve developer experience. - Collaborate across teams to align technical solutions with business objectives and customer needs. **What you'll bring:** - Demonstrated hands-on coding expertise with strong current coding practice, and the ability and willingness to own deep, end-to-end implementation, from detailed design and production code through automated quality, production deployment. - Extensive experience leading the design and development of scalable, cloud-native software systems and AI-powered solutions. - Strong expertise in operational excellence, including DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and incident management. - Demonstrated skill in driving continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks and automating manual processes. - Exceptional problem-solving and debugging capabilities with a focus on platform design and development. - Effective collaboration and mentorship skills to foster engineering excellence across teams. - Sound technical judgment with adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see . 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. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see [One.Walmart](https://one.walmart.com/). The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock ## Skills - Debugging - DevOps - Data Models - Cloud-Native Computing - English Language - Code Review - Problem Solving - Deployment Strategy - Observability - Automation - HTTP/HTTPS - Artificial Intelligence - Detailed Design - Continuous Improvement Process - Collaboration - CI/CD - Mentoring - Continuous Learning - API Design - Incident Management - Operational Excellence - Production Deployment - Proof of Concept Development - Adaptability - Distributed Systems ## Benefits - Health Insurance - Dental Insurance - Vision Insurance - Disability Insurance - Life Insurance - Parental Leave - Paid Time Off (Pto) - Sick Leave - 401(k) Plans ## How to Apply [Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/distinguished-software-engineer-at-walmart-inc-01a0dd32-6b2b-7c06-988c-2cfacf569b98?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Related - [More jobs at Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown)