Job Specifications
Position Summary...About Team:
Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.
What you'll do...You'll help build the Edge Connect SDK, develop test automation and simulators, contribute to IDE-based and AI-assisted authoring experiences, and expand integrations across device protocols and enterprise systems. You'll ship product to real customers and support sustaining engineering with a pragmatic, quality-first mindset.
Please note- “Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role”
What you'll do: SDK and APIs
Build and evolve the Edge Connect SDK and CLI (Go-first), define API contracts, versioning, and error models. Implement configuration parsing and schema validation (JSON Schema/YAML), plus docs and samples.
Tools, Testing, and Quality
Create protocol/device simulators, emulators, and local dev tooling for fast feedback. Set up automated tests (unit/integration), profiling, fuzzing or property-based testing where useful. Contribute to CI workflows and release automation; support sustaining engineering for shipped features.
IDE and AI-based authoring
Contribute to recipe authoring in IDEs (e.g., VS Code) with validation, scaffolding, and local run/debug. Explore AI-assisted flows (guardrailed generation, schema-aware suggestions, troubleshooting) as a bonus.
Integrations and Growth
Add new device/system integrations and expand protocol support. Deliver reference integrations and examples to accelerate adoption.
What you'll bring: Requirements
2–5 years of Go development experience.
Shipped product to customers and participated in sustaining engineering.
Comfortable with Linux shell operations and workflows.
Competent knowledge of security protocols and primitives (e.g., AES, SHA) and their practical usage.
Experience authoring APIs and/or CLI tools.
Experience with test automation and/or simulation.
Configuration parsing and schema definition experience (JSON Schema, YAML, etc.). Documentation writing experience (internal or external tools).
Self-starter with a bias to action and learning mindset.
Interest in learning and applying new technologies.
MacOS development workflow familiarity preferred (not required).
Knowledge of performance optimization and profiling.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
IDE tooling experience (VS Code, Goland) or developer productivity tools.
Edge/IoT protocols (e.g., MQTT, HTTP, Websockets, etc), time series/data pipelines.
Security at the edge (mTLS, signing, secrets management).
Expected Tool Competency
Git
CI (GitHub Actions or similar)
Linux shell (including SSH and Bash)
VS Code/GoLand or another modern IDE
Bonus: AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) and agentic editors (Windsurf, Cursor, etc.)
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail. Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.
Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal
About the Company
Sixty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world’s biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we’re reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. When you join our Walmart family of brands, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world. We are ecstatic to have been named...
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