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🥝 Principal, Software Engineer - Backend

Walmart | Sunnyvale, United States | Posted June 01, 2026

Job Description

**Position Summary...**

**What you'll do...**
As a Principal Software Engineer at Walmart, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities and AI-enhanced applications, driving technical excellence across multiple teams. This role requires expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and full software development lifecycle management. You will provide strategic technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate complex business needs into innovative solutions. Your contributions will support Walmart’s long-term technology vision, ensuring high availability, reliability, and continuous improvement of critical software systems serving millions of users.

**About the team:**
Walmart Connect’s Sponsored Search team builds scalable, high-performance systems that enhance search advertising on Walmart’s digital platform. Utilizing extensive retail data, advanced machine lear...

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