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
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