Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – Tech

at Walmart

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer – Tech
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $95,000 - $165,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Django, Google Cloud Platform, Microservices, Python, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sunnyvale, United States

About the role

• Walmart seeks a Principal Software Engineer to design scalable systems managing global infrastructure. Drive architecture development for next-gen Zero-Touch Networking platform.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead architecture for core infrastructure automation components, including orchestrators, workflow engines, configuration managers, and auto-remediation pipelines.
• Build and scale intent-based networking capabilities that abstract away manual operations and enable real-time, policy-driven infrastructure control.
• Design extensible APIs and microservices that empower internal teams through intuitive, self-service automation.
• Lead platform reliability practices—ensuring high availability, robust observability, and clear incident response workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (networking, SRE, cloud, security, observability) to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Mentor and influence engineers across the organization, shaping Walmart’s infrastructure engineering culture and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• 10+ years of experience building distributed systems or infrastructure platforms at scale.
• Deep expertise in infrastructure as code, network automation, and intent-based system design.
• Proficient in Go, Python, and frameworks like Django.
• Familiar with modern DevOps tooling: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting frameworks, GitOps practices.
• Experienced with source-of-truth systems (e.g., NetBox) and hybrid/cloud-native environments (Azure, GCP a plus).

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 in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
• Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.