--- title: Staff Software Engineer at Walmart in Sunnyvale, CA description: Walmart is hiring for the Staff Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $143K–$286K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/staff-software-engineer-at-walmart-01a10f52-3c0f-789f-bd62-8a9aafd07882 date: 2026-10-06T04:21:25Z og_description: Join Walmart as Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $143K–$286K per year. Full-time role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/5z6hhi.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** | $143K/yr - $286K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 01, 2026 | ## Description **Role summary:** Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable platform capabilities, including infrastructure, tooling, and AI/ML frameworks. This role drives the full software lifecycle, applying cloud-native architecture principles to enhance system resilience and agility. Collaborating across teams, you will influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver innovative solutions that align with business objectives. Your expertise in software design, debugging, and data-driven practices will support continuous improvement and operational excellence within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. **About the team:** The Marketplace Engineering team develops and maintains core platforms that support Walmart’s extensive product range and competitive pricing. This team manages the seller lifecycle, monitors customer interactions, and delivers risk features to mitigate marketplace challenges. Collaborating with partner platform teams, they ensure seamless integration and continuous enhancement of seller and customer experiences on walmart.com. Leveraging cloud-native architecture, software design patterns, and data-driven decision-making, the team builds scalable, resilient solutions that drive operational excellence and innovation across the marketplace ecosystem. **What you'll do:** - Lead development of full stack features, from user interfaces to backend services, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. - Translate product requirements into robust technical designs and implementation plans. - Build advanced and reusable ReactJS components and high-performance web applications using TypeScript, NodeJS, and related technologies. - Architect and implement backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs, following best practices in distributed systems. - Collaborate closely with architects, staff engineers, product managers, and QA engineers to ensure technical alignment and successful delivery. - Help steer platform modernization and migration efforts, ensuring seamless transition from legacy systems to modern architectures. **What you'll bring:** - Expertise in ReactJS, Redux, TypeScript, ES6, NodeJS, and front-end performance optimization. - Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs for robust and secure communication between frontend and backend systems. - Strong hold on Node.js for server-side JavaScript and associated backend development. - Cloud experience (GCP, Azure) and deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar). - Solid grounding in data structures, algorithms, and software architecture. - Proven track record of leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and driving continuous improvement. - Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. 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 $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. 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