DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Marketplace

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 on the Marketplace
team within Growth Tech, you will be developing services that helps millions of sellers to onboard and do business with Walmart. 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:

Walmarts Marketplace is the backbone of a thriving ecosystem connecting millions of third-party sellers to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. You will be build applications that provide accurate and contextual intelligence and recommendations to sellers on Walmart Marketplace and Omni platforms.

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 Marketplace

team within Growth Tech, you will be developing services that helps millions of sellers to onboard and do business with Walmart. 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 to onboard through Seller Center UI and APIs. You will be the technical standard-setter across all of it.

What Youll Own Technically

The Seller Acquisition & Onboarding team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the complete seller entry to Walmart marketplace journey. The team develops robust global acquisition funnels, automated onboarding 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 On-boarding journey, addressing distributed systems challenges, optimize APIs, and establish architectural standards to enable international marketplace growth.

What You Will 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 permanent fixes
• Challenge technical assumptions early in the design process before they become expensive production mistakes
• Navigate ambiguity with confidence by breaking down underspecified problems into structured technical approaches and drive alignment across stakeholders

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Design for resilience from first principles. Define and own the platforms non-functional requirements
• Instrument systems to be deeply observable and use the signals to drive continuous im…