--- title: Staff Software Engineer at Walmart in Bentonville, AR description: Walmart is hiring for the Staff Software Engineer role in Bentonville, AR. Pays $110K–$220K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/staff-software-engineer-at-walmart-01a141dd-6fae-7f6d-a4a9-2a4f936028fd date: 2026-10-16T00:20:58Z og_description: Join Walmart as Staff Software Engineer in Bentonville, AR. Pays $110K–$220K per year. Full-time role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/2eqijo.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** | Bentonville, AR | | **Salary** | $110K/yr - $220K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 11, 2026 | ## Description **Staff Software Engineer - Code Puppy** **AI & Data | Walmart Global Tech** Join Walmart as a **Staff Software Engineer** within our AI & Data organization and help make it trivially easy for associates, engineers, data scientists, and citizen developers to turn ideas into AI-powered solutions quickly, safely, and cost-effectively. At Walmart, we operate at Fortune #1 scale. Our challenges are complex, global, and deeply meaningful. Here, you'll do the best work of your career, work that helps people save money and live better. **About AI & Data** The AI & Data organization within Walmart Global Tech is building a platform-first ecosystem that centralizes enterprise data, provides foundational AI capabilities, and delivers intuitive AI solutions for all personas. We enable AI at enterprise scale responsibly, securely, and reliably. **About the Team** Our team builds intelligent agents that make associates' jobs easier, faster, and more fulfilling, from automating repetitive tasks to providing decision support for complex operations. We work directly with business stakeholders to rapidly iterate on agentic solutions that deliver measurable operational impact. We leverage the Element LLM Gateway to safely access state-of-the-art language models while ensuring all data remains within Walmart's network. **Position Summary** As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and scaling agentic AI solutions that drive business transformation across Walmart. You will partner with business and technology teams to translate complex operational challenges into innovative AI-powered products and services. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence architecture and engineering best practices across teams. You will be a great fit if: - You thrive at the intersection of business problem-solving and hands-on software engineering. - You are passionate about leveraging AI, machine learning, and large language models to create impactful solutions. - You enjoy working directly with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver measurable business value. - You excel in highly collaborative, fast-paced environments and can effectively influence without authority. - You are excited about building scalable, enterprise-grade software systems and mentoring fellow engineers. **What You'll Do** - Design, develop, and deploy scalable agentic AI applications and multi-agent systems that address critical business challenges. - Lead architecture and technical design discussions for highly available, secure, and performant platforms. - Translate business requirements, operational workflows, and user needs into production-ready technical solutions. - Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes. - Drive the end-to-end development lifecycle, from solution design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. - Build integrations with AI platforms, APIs, enterprise systems, and large-scale data ecosystems. - Champion engineering excellence through code reviews, testing strategies, observability, and operational best practices. - Establish standards and best practices for agentic AI development, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and LLM integration. - Mentor and coach engineers across teams, fostering technical growth and innovation. - Contribute to technology roadmaps and help shape the future direction of AI-powered products at Walmart. **What You'll Bring** - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - Strong software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and enterprise applications. - Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript. - Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud-native applications and microservices architectures. - Familiarity with AI/ML technologies, large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic frameworks. - Strong understanding of software design principles, system architecture, API development, and cloud platforms. - Experience working with data platforms, analytics systems, and modern engineering toolchains. - Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Proven ability to influence technical strategy and drive cross-functional initiatives. - Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical projects from concept to production. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience building AI-powered products in enterprise environments. - Knowledge of vector databases, knowledge graphs, LLM orchestration, and AI evaluation frameworks. - Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, or AWS. - Familiarity with retail, supply chain, omnichannel commerce, logistics, or operational systems. - Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field. 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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : \- Stock (empty) ## Skills - Multi-Agent Systems - Cloud Computing - Stakeholder Management - Influencing - Amazon Web Services - Influencing Skills - Analytics - Business Transformation - Agentic AI - Data Science - Cloud-Native Computing - Software Design - English Language - Microsoft Excel - Software Deployment - Code Review - Problem Solving - API Development - Python - AI Evaluation - Technology Roadmap - Observability - Prompt Engineering - Logistics - Artificial Intelligence - Software Testing - Microsoft Azure - Big Data - Continuous Improvement Process - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Rag) - Knowledge Graph - Strategic Thinking - Software Development Life Cycle - Mentoring - Supply Chain - Large Language Models (Llm) - Vector Database - Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) - TypeScript - AI Agent Frameworks - Systems Architecture - JavaScript - Computer Science - Solution Design - LLM Orchestration - LLM Integration - Communication - Machine Learning - Java - Business Requirements - Distributed Systems ## Benefits - Dental Insurance - Paid Time Off (Pto) - Parental Leave - 401(k) Plans - Health Insurance - Disability Insurance - Vision Insurance - Sick Leave - Life Insurance ## Related - [More jobs at Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [Retail](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/retail-and-wholesale/retail?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 236465 jobs - [Arkansas](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/arkansas?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 20701 jobs - [Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 6250 jobs - [Bentonville, AR](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/arkansas/bentonville?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 1521 jobs ## Related pages - [Retail](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/retail-and-wholesale/retail?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 236465 jobs - [Arkansas](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/arkansas?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 20701 jobs - [Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 6250 jobs - [Bentonville, AR](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/arkansas/bentonville?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 1521 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)