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(USA) Principal Software Engineer - Tech

Walmart

BENTONVILLE, ARJob$95–165K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$95–165K/yr
Location
BENTONVILLE, AR
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Principal Software Engineer will lead the design and delivery of scalable SAP payroll platform capabilities, overseeing the software development lifecycle across teams. The role provides strategic technical leadership, mentors engineering teams, and collaborates with stakeholders on technical solutions. It supports payroll modernization for a large enterprise workforce, including architecture and implementation of capabilities for complex US payroll operations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

ABAP, requiredABAP HR, requiredABAP OO, requiredCDS Views, requiredAMDP, requiredOData Services, requiredEnhancements, requiredForms, requiredInterfaces, requiredWorkflow, requiredSAP Integration, requiredScalable Application Design, requiredSAP Integration Design, requiredEPI-USE Variance Monitor, requiredSOLMAN/ALM Tools, requiredWorkday Integration, requiredServiceNow Integration, requiredSAP Finance Integration, requiredSuccessFactors Integration, requiredCloud Services Integration, requiredCustom Application Integration, requiredSoftware Design Principles, requiredSystem Architecture, requiredSecurity, requiredPerformance Optimization, requiredOperational Excellence, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related, required5+ Years Software Engineering Experience, required7+ Years Software Engineering Experience, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable SAP platform capabilities. This role requires overseeing the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance. You will provide strategic technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business needs into effective technical solutions. Your expertise will support Walmart’s long-term platform evolution while fostering continuous improvement and operational excellence across engineering initiatives.

About the team:

The Walmart Payroll Modernization Team is transforming how payroll technology is built, operated, and scaled for one of the world's largest workforces. The team owns the strategy, design, implementation, and continuous evolution of next-generation payroll platforms, ensuring that millions of associates are paid accurately and on time while meeting complex regulatory and business requirements. Working at the intersection of product, engineering, and payroll operations, the team drives modernization initiatives, builds new capabilities, simplifies legacy processes, enables large-scale business transformations, and establishes best-in-class engineering and operational practices.

What you'll do:

  • Be part of one of the world's largest Payroll Modernization programs, delivering payroll solutions that support more than 1.6 million associates every month across a highly complex enterprise ecosystem.

  • Define and drive the strategic architecture of enterprise payroll solutions, ensuring scalability, compliance, security, and operational resilience across large-scale US payroll operations.

  • Lead the design and implementation of core payroll capabilities including payroll processing, retroactive accounting, taxation, garnishments, benefits deductions, time integration, off-cycle payments, and year-end processing.

  • Architect solutions that support complex US payroll requirements.

What you'll bring:

  • Deep technical expertise in ABAP, ABAP HR, ABAP OO, CDS Views, AMDP, OData Services, Enhancements, Forms, Interfaces, Workflow, and SAP Integration technologies.

  • Proven experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance applications and integrations across SAP and non-SAP platforms.

  • Experience in tools such as EPI-USE Variance Monitor, and other SOLMAN/ALM Tools.

  • Experience integrating SAP solutions with enterprise platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Finance (FI), SuccessFactors, cloud services, and custom applications.

  • Strong understanding of software design principles, system architecture patterns, security, performance optimization, and operational excellence.

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 (https://one.walmart.com/) .

The annual salary range for this position is $95,000.00 - $165,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

  • Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

  • 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.

Primary Location...

601 N WALTON BLVD., BENTONVILLE, AR 72716-0000, 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.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

How this job compares

Set against the 38,872 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$95–165K/yr
  • Arkansas median$110–219K/yr252 salary ranges
  • US median$132–214K/yr31,450 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $130K, is 21% below the Arkansas median midpoint ($165K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Arkansas.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 285 open Software Engineer jobs in Arkansas and 38,872 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Arkansas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (32,117 postings).
Education
12,029 of the 38,872 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Pay, requirements and demand for Software Engineer jobs

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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