Onsite Staff Software Engineer, Information Security, Non-Human Identity / Agentic Identity

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer designing and implementing identity, authentication, and authorization for agentic AI ecosystems at Walmart. Leading secure architecture and engineering excellence for non-human identities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of NHI platform services supporting agent identity, authentication, and authorization.
  • Deliver secure patterns for delegated authority, least privilege, and adaptive authorization for agentic workflows.
  • Implement continuous authentication and risk-based access control to evaluate trust at runtime.
  • Build automation for agent identity lifecycle, credential issuance/rotation, and governance controls.
  • Define and implement observability, auditing, and compliance controls for agent actions (telemetry, attribution, lineage).
  • Drive engineering best practices: secure coding, threat modeling, design reviews, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to technical planning, and influence standards across teams.
  • Partner with platform, product, and security teams to deliver secure AI capabilities end-to-end.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating enterprise-scale systems.
  • 3+ years of experience in identity, authentication, and authorization at enterprise scale.
  • Strong understanding of agentic AI architectures and NHI lifecycle management (provisioning, attestation, rotation, decommissioning).
  • Experience designing and implementing continuous authentication and runtime trust evaluation patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with adaptive authorization, policy-as-code, and modern authorization systems.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud-native identity, workload identity, service-to-service auth, and API security.
  • Experience building and operating distributed services with high reliability and strong security posture.
  • Automation skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell) and infrastructure/CI security fundamentals.
  • Strong system design, technical leadership, and cross-team communication skills.
  • Certification in Security+, GISF, CISSP, CCSP, or GSEC is preferred.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

Job title

Staff Software Engineer, Information Security, Non-Human Identity / Agentic Identity

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$132,000 - $264,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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