(USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer at Walmart

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Position Summary... What you'll do... Role summary: Walmart is seeking a Distinguished Software Engineer to lead the design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI-powered systems. This role requires ownership of system-level execution, ensuring architectural integrity and operational excellence across platforms. The successful candidate will drive continuous improvement, mentor engineering teams, and champion best practices in software development and DevOps. Collaborating across teams, they will deliver reliable, maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise standards while fostering innovation and technical excellence to support Walmart’s strategic objectives and customer-focused mission. About the team: This highly visible team leads the next evolution in advertising technology by building VIZIO’s first agentic advertising platform. The team focuses on AI-powered buyer agents that discover, evaluate, and purchase inventory, delivering significant business impact. Members collaborate across engineering, advertising platforms, and product teams to address complex challenges at the intersection of AI, advertising, and large-scale media buying. The team emphasizes scalable, cloud-native architecture and operational excellence, fostering innovation and problem-solving to create reliable, extensible systems that advance the future of media purchasing technology. What you'll do: Lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI-powered systems and intelligent automation solutions. Translate domain strategies into system-level implementations, ensuring architectural integrity and reliability. Drive operational excellence through code reviews, incident analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. Champion DevOps and CI/CD practices to maintain resilient, observable, and performant services. Mentor engineers across teams, promoting high standards in design, testing, and delivery. Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks, enhancing system scalability and developer experience. Collaborate effectively with stakeholders to align technical decisions with business objectives. What you'll bring: Proven expertise in designing and building scalable, cloud-native software systems and AI-powered agents. Strong technical leadership with experience owning system-level execution and architectural integrity. Deep knowledge of operational excellence, including DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and incident management. Ability to translate domain strategies into actionable system implementations across teams. Skilled in debugging, problem solving, and driving continuous improvement in tools and processes. Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of high standards and innovation. Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional stakeholders. Commitment to delivering reliable, maintainable, and secure software solutions aligned with business goals. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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. 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. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices . Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from