--- title: Senior Software Engineer at Walmart in Sunnyvale, CA description: Walmart is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $117K–$234K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-at-walmart-inc-01a0e59d-8445-7477-97fb-8ea379f1de1d date: 2026-09-28T21:15:05Z og_description: Join Walmart as Senior Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $117K–$234K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/x9x3ne.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** | $117K/yr - $234K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Sep 23, 2026 | ## Description **Role summary:** As a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, you will lead the delivery of scalable, high-quality software solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will drive the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment, while integrating advanced AI/ML components to enhance platform capabilities. This role requires strong technical judgment, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving to meet business objectives. You will mentor peers, contribute to innovation, and ensure alignment with Walmart’s standards, supporting a culture of engineering excellence and operational reliability across complex systems. **About the team:** The Creative Platform team develops and maintains Walmart’s first-party self-service ad creative builder, enabling advertisers to create, process, and deliver ad creatives across Walmart’s retail media network. This team manages the full backend stack, including creative management APIs, video transcoding, and image optimization. Focused on scalable and reliable solutions, the team supports onsite and offsite ad delivery, ensuring high performance and seamless integration. Members collaborate closely to drive innovation, maintain system quality, and deliver impactful features that power Walmart’s advertising business end-to-end. **What you'll do:** - Own scoped feature and model delivery through collaborative engineering teams, managing implementation, iteration, testing, and support. - Write clean, efficient, and reliable code across multiple languages, driving full software development lifecycle including CI/CD and automated testing. - Integrate AI and ML components to enhance software intelligence and leverage generative AI tools to improve development velocity. - Assist in converting high-level designs into detailed, scalable, and maintainable solutions aligned with platform objectives. - Conduct code reviews, debugging, and defect management to ensure software quality and performance. - Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and measure solution impact. - Monitor application performance and support continuous improvement through proactive testing and integration. **What you'll bring:** - Proven expertise in object-oriented programming and documentation-based coding practices. - Strong technical acumen with experience in code review, debugging, and continuous development. - Demonstrated ability to deliver scoped features or models through iterative and incremental development. - Experience integrating AI/ML components and leveraging generative AI tools to enhance software solutions. - Proficiency in software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, automated testing, and observability. - Ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable software aligned with platform objectives. - Effective collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams. - Commitment to engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. 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/). Bellevue, Washington US-11663: The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00 - $216,000.00 Sunnyvale, California US-11657: The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00 - $234,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock ## Skills - Debugging - English Language - Object-Oriented Programming (Oop) - Code Review - Deployment Strategy - Observability - Agile Velocity - HTTP/HTTPS - Technical Acumen - Continuous Improvement Process - Collaboration - CI/CD - Iterative And Incremental Development - Software Development Life Cycle - Generative AI - Defect Management - Automated Testing - Software Quality (Sqa/sqc) - Communication - Machine Learning - Generative AI Foundations ## 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/senior-software-engineer-at-walmart-inc-01a0e59d-8445-7477-97fb-8ea379f1de1d?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)