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Job Description
As part of Walmart Global Tech, this Staff Data Engineer role sits on the Global Data Foundations team, focused on building enterprise platforms and data products that support supply chain automation and enterprise intelligence. You will help turn real-time automation, robotics, IoT, and sensor signals into actionable insights, while working closely with product and business partners to solve complex supply chain challenges using data, software, and AI.
This onsite position is based in Sunnyvale, CA, and supports an end-to-end mission to provide unified intelligence across Walmart’s supply chain ecosystem.
What you’ll do
- Build and scale enterprise platforms for Walmart’s Supply Chain Automation initiatives, including Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance, warehouse intelligence, and operational analytics.
- Create high-performance data products, APIs, microservices, and user-facing applications for large-scale automation, robotics, IoT, sensor, and operational data.
- Partner with product, operations, and business teams to address complex supply chain problems using data, software, and AI.
- Use AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, and prompt-driven engineering practices to improve innovation speed while maintaining reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
Required qualifications
- Strong experience building large-scale distributed data and software platforms using Spark, BigQuery, Java, Python, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, React, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.
- Proven expertise in data engineering, backend development, event-driven systems, real-time data processing, and scalable application design.
- Strong problem-solving, ownership, and collaboration skills with the ability to deliver business impact at enterprise scale.
- Minimum experience level: 3 years.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
- Relevant experience options:
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 4 years of software engineering (or related field)
- Option 2: 6 years of software engineering (or related field)
- Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 2 years of software engineering (or related field)
- Minimum minimum experience also includes 3 years in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with high-volume IoT, telemetry, sensor, automation, or machine-generated data (highly desirable).
- Hands-on experience applying AI and automation to solve complex business problems, including using AI-powered development tools, coding agents, and prompt-driven engineering workflows.
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices, including implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessi… (text truncated in source).
Technologies you may use
- Spark, BigQuery, Java, Python, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, React, APIs
- Cloud-native architectures and microservices
- Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance
- Computer Vision, robotics telemetry, IoT analytics, SCADA
Team context
- The Global Data Foundations E2E Supply Chain Automation team builds Walmart’s enterprise platform for warehouse automation intelligence.
- The team enables solutions by integrating data from multiple automation platforms across supply chain warehouse and transportation next gen applications, supporting Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance, Computer Vision, robotics telemetry, IoT analytics, and operational intelligence.
- The mission is a unified intelligence layer for real-time visibility, predictive insights, and scalable AI-powered automation across Walmart’s supply chain ecosystem.
Location and compensation
- Primary location: 1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America
- Work mode: Onsite
- Salary range: USD 110,000 - 286,000 per year
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical, vision and dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement
- Jury duty
- Voting
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO
- Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for associates)
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