DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER - WFS-ICC Atlas Platform

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Position Summary… Distinguished Engineer is one of the most coveted technical IC titles at Walmart - and this role lives up to it. As a Distinguished Engineer in the WFS team within Growth Tech, you will be developing services that helps millions of sellers to onboard, do business with Walmart using WFS. You will write code, design systems, review architectures, and solve the problems that are complex. Your world-class expertise in distributed systems, API design, and platform engineering will be paired with a Al-forward mindset. What youll do…

About the team

Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) Technology delivers scalable fulfillment solutions for third-party sellers, integrating transportation, inventory, warehouse operations, billing, and delivery. The team bridges Marketplace and Walmart s supply chain, collaborating with Product, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, and Transportation partners. Combining the agility of a growth business with the scale of a global retailer, the team drives innovation and expands fulfillment capabilities into new models and international markets. This environment emphasizes technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration to develop impactful solutions that enhance the seller fulfillment experience.

Role Overview

Distinguished Engineer is one of the most coveted technical IC titles at Walmart - and this role lives up to it. As a Distinguished Engineer on the WFS team within Growth Tech, you will be developing services that helps millions of sellers to leverage Walmart Fulfilment Services. You will write code, design systems, review architectures, and solve the problems that are complex. Your world-class expertise in distributed systems, API design, and platform engineering will be paired with a Al-forward mindset.

This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of scale, commerce, and platform engineering. You will own the technical vision and execution for a portfolio of mission-critical, cross-cutting services that enables Seller through Seller Center UI and APIs. You will be the technical standard-setter across all of it.

What Youll Own Technically

The Walmart Fulfilment Services team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the complete seller fulfilment within Walmart marketplace journey. The team develops robust global workflows, and complex multi-platform integrations connecting cloud microservices, seller portals, and AI-driven analytics. You will own Architecture, design, development and delivery of Seller journey, addressing distributed systems challenges, optimize APIs, and establish architectural standards to enable international marketplace growth.

What Youll Do

Architecture & System Design

Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives involving from API contracts, UI interfaces and data models to distributed system topologies and cross-cutting concerns.

Drive platform standardization by defining and documenting reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guardrails that teams adopt

Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and cloud-native patterns with a clear-eyed understanding of trade-offs at Walmarts operational scale

Author and review RFCs and architecture decision records (ADRs) that become the technical canon for the platform

Hands-On Engineering

Write production-grade code and not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, test and deploy them to production

Solve complex problems considering performance, reliability and scalability

Prototype new solutions rapidly using Al-augmented development workflows and then drive them to production quality

Conduct deep-dive code reviews that raise the technical bar of the team.

Own the full software development lifecycle for your initiatives involving design, development, testing, deployment, observability

Complex Problem Solving

Solve the hardest and complex problems and enable the team while doing so

Lead technical investigations for P0/P1 incidents affecting platform services; own the root cause analysis and define…