Performance Engineer Jobs in Arkansas (NOW HIRING)

Position Summary... What you'll do... We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong backend, cloud, and platform engineering expertise. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems, cloud-native applications, microservices, and developer platforms. As a Staff Software Engineer you will be required to have technical depth, and the ability to influence design decisions, improve engineering practices, and collaborate across teams. You should be comfortable solving complex technical problems, supporting production systems, mentoring engineers, and driving reliable, high-quality delivery. What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives, internal developer tools, CI/CD improvements, and developer productivity.
• Translate business and technical requirements into reliable, maintainable software solutions.
• Build and support event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Design and optimize data storage using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot production issues, resolve defects, and support smooth releases.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning.
• Create documentation, operational playbooks, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and help foster a culture of technical excellence.

Technical Skills Needed

• Strong proficiency in Java, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, RESTful services, microservices, and cloud-native development.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP.
• Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming/messaging platforms.
• Strong knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, build tools, automated testing, and deployment practices.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization/orchestration technologies.
• Experience with observability tools for logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Working knowledge of React, HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, production support, and reliability engineering skills.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
• Hands on AI engineering experience in using LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, or RAG-based architectures.
• Exposure to Anthropic ecosystem concepts such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, tool use, agentic workflows, context management, and human-in-the-loop AI automation.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or operating enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms or internal developer platforms.
• Knowledge of platform engineering, developer experience, and Internal Developer Platform principles.
• Experience with performance engineering, scalability optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, model evaluation, guardrails, or LLMOps.

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-09050: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00
Sunnyvale, California US-11657: 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...

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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... 805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, 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.