Position Summary...
About the Team
The Promotions & Rewards Promotions platform powers offers, coupons, discounts, and Walmart Rewards across online and instore journeys. Our Promotions Engine and Reward Service and evaluate eligibility at Walmart scale with low latency, integrate seamlessly with other systems, and provide the foundational incentives platform for business teams to launch new experiences quickly and safely.
Position Summary
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will own technical strategy and architecture for core services that act as a platform for multiple incentive @types-enabling faster launches, safer changes, and new offer @types at Walmart scale.
You'll collaborate with other Staff Engineers to set the technical vision,
influence cross pillar priorities, and lead multiteam initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes while maintaining SLOs, resiliency, and
compliance.
What you'll do...
Platform Architecture & Leadership
Define and evolve domain models, APIs, and event-driven designs to support diverse incentives (stacking, exclusivity, conflict resolution).
Standardize platform primitives (idempotency, versioned policies, feature flagging, rollout strategies) to enable rapid, lowrisk launches across programs.
Drive long-term architectural roadmap, balancing feature velocity with platform health and tech debt reduction.
Operational Excellence at Scale:
Own SLOs, capacity planning, and cost-to-serve; design for peak-season resiliency on WCNP/Kubernetes with canary/shadowing and automated rollback.
Lead observability strategy (metrics/logs/traces), incident readiness, and postmortem culture across squads.
Eventing & Workflows
Architect event-driven pipelines with Kafka; design durable state and reconciliation across NoSQL/RDBMS.
For rewards accrual/redemption, lead workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal) for multi-step processes with retries and exactly-once semantics.
Cross-Team Leadership & Influence
Translate business objectives into sequenced technical roadmaps, influencing product and platform priorities across Pillar2 and partner orgs.
Mentor Senior Engineers and Tech Leads; lead design reviews and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
You'll Make an Impact If You Have:
10+ years in software engineering; leading architecture for at scale.
5+ years distributed, low-latency backend systems Expertise in , Spring Boot, Kafka, (Cassandra/Dynamo), and RDBMS; deep knowledge of caching, idempotency, Java (11/17/21) NoSQL concurrency, and consistency trade-offs.
Proven ability to set technical direction, influence stakeholders, and deliver multi team initiatives with measurable impact (latency, SLO set technical direction multi-team initiatives attainment, cost optimization).
Production experience on Kubernetes (WCNP or similar), service mesh, autoscaling, and advanced rollout strategies (canary, blue/green, shadowing)..
Strong observability and operational readiness mindset (SLOs, dashboards/alerts, incident drills, RCAs).
Domain experience in promotions/loyalty/rewards, checkout, payments, or policy/rule engines.
. Nice to have:
Experience designing multi-tenant, self-serve platform capabilities (APIs/SDKs/tooling) for rapid onboarding of new incentive @types.
Our Tech Stack (Representative)
Languages/Frameworks: Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x
Data/Eventing: Kafka, Cassandra, SQL, Redis
Runtime/Platform: WCNP/Kubernetes, Azure/GCP, GitHub Actions/Concord, feature flagging.
How We Work
We are people-led and tech-empowered. Expect a hybrid environment that values collaboration, mentorship, and continuous learning while building systems that power incentives for hundreds of millions of customers. (Walmart's standard benefits and EEO statements apply.)
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.
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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.
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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
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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.
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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.
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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart (https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J) .
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The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
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Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor'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.Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
