(USA) Staff, Data Engineer

Position Summary... Role summary: Walmart is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data solutions that support business objectives across multiple domains. This role involves translating complex business requirements into effective data models, pipelines, and governance practices while ensuring data quality, security, and compliance. The successful candidate will leverage advanced technologies and cloud platforms to optimize data integration and transformation processes. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, this position drives data strategy execution and continuous improvement to enable actionable insights and informed decision-making throughout the organization. About the team: Our team develops foundational data products and platforms that support Walmart’s $1B+ AdTech Display Ads business. We design large scale data systems that convert complex user event signals and identity mappings into trusted datasets for Ads Serving and other key advertising functions. Additionally, we create secure partner integrations that deliver data through privacy safe environments like Data Clean Rooms, enabling extensive analytics and insights. This role offers the opportunity to address complex data engineering and integration challenges at scale, directly impacting the growth and effectiveness of Walmart’s advertising platform and the value provided to advertisers. What you'll do... What you'll do: - Translate complex business requirements into scalable data engineering solutions aligned with organizational strategy. - Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines using modern tools and frameworks such as Spark, Scala, Airflow, and Google Cloud Dataproc. - Integrate and transform data from various sources, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance with regulatory standards. - Build and optimize data models for efficient storage, retrieval, and analysis across relational and NoSQL platforms. - Collaborate with stakeholders to provide actionable insights and support data governance initiatives. - Monitor and troubleshoot data workflows, implementing improvements to enhance performance and reliability. What you'll bring: - Proven expertise in data engineering with strong proficiency in Spark Framework, Apache Kafka, and Airflow for building scalable data pipelines. - Experience working with big data technologies and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Dataproc to manage and process large datasets efficiently. - Solid understanding of data modeling techniques, including dimensional design and entity relationship diagrams, to support data warehousing and analytics. - Knowledge of distributed system security architecture and data governance principles to ensure compliance with regulatory and ethical standards. - Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions aligned with organizational strategy. - Proficiency in development languages such as Python, SQL or Java for data transformation, Integration 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 $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ‎ 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 and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related field. 3 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics. Preferred Qualifications... Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics, ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud, Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field, 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... 815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America Walmart 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.