Staff, Software Engineer - job 1 of 12

Position Summary...

We are seeking a Staff Data Scientist for our Sam’s Fraud Engine (SaFE) team. This role involves creating innovative solutions for fraud prevention across our We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer who can lead complex technical initiatives across AI/ML, microservices, and large-scale data processing systems. In this role, you will partner closely with business and product leadership, and cross-functional engineering teams to architect scalable solutions, drive strategic technical direction, and elevate engineering excellence across the organization.

This is both a hands-on and thought-leadership role—ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, influences at multiple levels, and can deliver high-impact systems at scale.

About the Team

The Fraud Prevention Services team at Sam's owns the responsibility to prevent fraud across all of Sam's club's digital channels. We use a mix of machine learning, knowledge graph and herustic rules approach to achieving our goals. We are part of the larger Trust and Safety organization and are constantly innovating prevent fraud effectively while also delighting our members with seamless shopping experiences.

What you'll do...

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Serve as a technical leader across AI/ML, distributed systems, and data engineering initiatives.
• Work with business owners, product managers, and engineering teams to understand complex business problems and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Architect and guide the implementation of low-latency, highly available microservices and large-scale data-processing pipelines.
• Define technical direction and influence long-term engineering strategy, platform evolution, and product roadmaps.
• Support our Data Science partners in conducting exploratory data analysis, prototyping and operationalizing heuristic rules, ML models, network-graphs and other data-driven solutions.
• Ensure robust MLOps practices—including automation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and model lifecycle management.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and provide technical mentorship to senior and junior engineers.
• Set quality standards for testing—including functional, performance, resiliency, and reliability testing.
• Drive best practices in performance engineering, monitoring, alerting, and system observability.

What You'll Bring

• 3-5 years of engineering experience, including significant hands-on contributions to large-scale systems and machine learning solutions.
• Strong expertise in ML algorithms such as classification models, decision trees, XGBoost, deep learning, anomaly detection, and feature engineering.
• Experience operationalizing ML and data-driven systems in production environments.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and microservices (low-latency, highly available architectures).
• Expertise with big-data and streaming platforms such as Cassandra, Hive, PySpark, BigQuery, Kafka, or Databricks.
• Strong proficiency with tools, libraries, and frameworks used for large-scale data processing, analysis, and visualization.
• Outstanding communication skills—able to influence senior stakeholders and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience in MLOps, performance engineering, testing, tuning, monitoring, and observability.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Prior experience in fraud detection, risk systems, anomaly detection, or similar domains.
• Experience driving org-wide technical strategy or leading multi-team initiatives.

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.
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09930: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00
Sunnyvale, California US-11807: 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 :
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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 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 6 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 2 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...

2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, 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.