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Walmart USA Distinguished Software Engineer 
United States, Washington, Bellevue 
767527710

23.12.2024

What you'll do...

As a Walmart Distinguished Engineer, you will spearhead the development of the next generation of payroll systems for over 2 million associates. In this role, you will have the opportunity to set the technical direction for a team that integrates with 50+ systems to ensure seamless, accurate, and timely payments for all associates, while eliminating defects and manual touch points. As a leader in the Payroll Integrations space, you'll work closely with senior leadership across multiple organizations to shape the future of payroll technology, driving innovation and efficiency at scale, and delivering on ambitious goals like 90% year-on-year defect reduction. If you're ready to lead transformative change in one of the largest companies in the world, we want to hear from you. Join us and be a driving force in revolutionizing the payroll landscape for millions, and help us take care of our Associates as our Associates take care of our customers.



What you'll do:

  • Set the technical direction for multiple teams and systems, and disambiguate large complex problems at Walmart scale to enable the team to deliver.
  • Collaborate with engineering and business leadership to align technology and business priorities.
  • Establish and own both business as well as well operational excellence goals, and help define the path to goal achievement.
  • Invest in creating engineering leaders and set up culture of engineering excellence for multiple teams.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership across Walmart Global Tech to influence global best practices and be a spokesperson for the org.


What you'll bring:

  • At least 10+ years of relevant industry experience in designing, implementing and launching highly available at-scale simple systems to solve large and ambiguous problems.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering and business leadership, and set technical direction for multiple engineering teams.
  • Effective problem solving and simplification skills, ability to make design tradeoffs, balancing the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
  • Expertise in service-oriented architecture and cloud-native solutions.
  • Expertise with Relational and/or NoSQL Database.
  • Experience with CI/CD and operational excellence best practices.
  • Mentoring/coaching engineering leadership.



Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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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The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00-$312,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Stock 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 and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...

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