The Role
Provides principal-level technical leadership for Walmart’s TAX360 and Tax Data Hub. Defines architecture and engineering strategy for secure, scalable distributed applications, data platforms, workflow systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Translates tax-domain needs into technical solutions, establishes reusable engineering patterns, and guides teams through experimentation, implementation, production readiness, governance, security, auditability, and platform evolution. Requires extensive software and data engineering expertise across GCP, data processing, AI systems, and modern architecture patterns.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position Summary...What you'll do...Role summary:
As a Principal Software Engineer for TAX360 / Tax Data Hub, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture and engineering direction of Walmart’s next-generation tax technology platform. You will solve complex, ambiguous engineering problems spanning distributed systems, cloud platforms, data engineering, workflow orchestration, application architecture, security, governance, and auditability. You will translate business and tax-domain challenges into scalable technical strategies and guide engineering teams from architecture and experimentation through implementation, production readiness, and long-term platform evolution.
About the team:
Our team is dedicated to building a unified, fit-for-purpose digital tax platform supported by secure, scalable technology and trusted data. We develop the Tax Data Hub and TAX360 to transform tax data access and process execution, enabling centralized, intuitive data management and integrated self-service workflows. The platform emphasizes data centralization, process orchestration, governance, security, and auditability. Designed to handle complex datasets and scalable workflows, it provides full visibility from data to execution to audit, reducing operational costs, compliance risks, and manual effort while delivering a reliable system of record for tax lifecycle management.
What you'll do:
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for TAX360 and Tax Data Hub, helping define and build a secure, scalable, governed technology ecosystem supporting Walmart’s tax organization. Architecture & Technical Leadership Lead architecture and technical strategy across complex, distributed applications and data platforms. Translate business capabilities into scalable architectures, identify appropriate technology patterns, and make thoughtful trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, developer productivity, and cost. Drive architectural decisions across services, applications, APIs, data platforms, workflow engines, compute platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Establish reusable patterns that enable multiple teams and tax domains to build capabilities consistently.
What you'll bring:
Strong proficiency in Python, Scala, Spark, SQL. Hands-on experience with GCP services: Dataproc, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI. Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps. Solid understanding of data lake, data lakehouse, data warehousing, ETL and data processing concepts like Kappa & Lambda, and data modeling. Practical experience with LangChain, LangGraph, RAG architectures, and Agentic AI systems. 12+ years of experience in data engineering/software engineering, with at least 4 years on GCP. Google Professional certification is a plus. Demonstrated ability to work with integrity, respect for individuals, and a customer-first mindset. 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 high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Preferred Qualifications...
As a Principal Software Engineer for TAX360 / Tax Data Hub, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture and engineering direction of Walmart’s next-generation tax technology platform. You will solve complex, ambiguous engineering problems spanning distributed systems, cloud platforms, data engineering, workflow orchestration, application architecture, security, governance, and auditability. You will translate business and tax-domain challenges into scalable technical strategies and guide engineering teams from architecture and experimentation through implementation, production readiness, and long-term platform evolution.
About the team:
Our team is dedicated to building a unified, fit-for-purpose digital tax platform supported by secure, scalable technology and trusted data. We develop the Tax Data Hub and TAX360 to transform tax data access and process execution, enabling centralized, intuitive data management and integrated self-service workflows. The platform emphasizes data centralization, process orchestration, governance, security, and auditability. Designed to handle complex datasets and scalable workflows, it provides full visibility from data to execution to audit, reducing operational costs, compliance risks, and manual effort while delivering a reliable system of record for tax lifecycle management.
What you'll do:
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for TAX360 and Tax Data Hub, helping define and build a secure, scalable, governed technology ecosystem supporting Walmart’s tax organization. Architecture & Technical Leadership Lead architecture and technical strategy across complex, distributed applications and data platforms. Translate business capabilities into scalable architectures, identify appropriate technology patterns, and make thoughtful trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, developer productivity, and cost. Drive architectural decisions across services, applications, APIs, data platforms, workflow engines, compute platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Establish reusable patterns that enable multiple teams and tax domains to build capabilities consistently.
What you'll bring:
Strong proficiency in Python, Scala, Spark, SQL. Hands-on experience with GCP services: Dataproc, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI. Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps. Solid understanding of data lake, data lakehouse, data warehousing, ETL and data processing concepts like Kappa & Lambda, and data modeling. Practical experience with LangChain, LangGraph, RAG architectures, and Agentic AI systems. 12+ years of experience in data engineering/software engineering, with at least 4 years on GCP. Google Professional certification is a plus. Demonstrated ability to work with integrity, respect for individuals, and a customer-first mindset. 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 high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...2914 Se I St, Bentonville, AR 72712-3148, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area, plus 5 years of software engineering or related experience
- Alternatively, 7 years of software engineering or related experience
- Strong proficiency in Python, Scala, Spark, and SQL
- Hands-on experience with GCP services including Dataproc, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Vertex AI
- Experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub, and Azure DevOps
- Experience with data lakes, data lakehouses, data warehousing, ETL, Kappa and Lambda architectures, and data modeling
- Practical experience with LangChain, LangGraph, RAG architectures, and Agentic AI systems
- At least 12 years of data engineering or software engineering experience and at least 4 years of GCP experience
- Google Professional certification
- Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area, plus 3 years of related experience
- Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices
Walmart Global Tech Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Walmart Global Tech and has not been reviewed or approved by Walmart Global Tech.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation packages typically include base pay, performance bonuses, and stock awards, with access to an employee stock purchase plan. Feedback suggests annual bonus structures and stock grants are a consistent part of total compensation in many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a company 401(k) match and stock purchase options that support long‑term savings. Feedback suggests these programs are a notable strength within the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family benefits feature paid parental leave and adoption assistance, alongside tax‑advantaged accounts for healthcare spending. Feedback suggests these supports contribute meaningfully to perceived total rewards value.
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What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
