Backend Senior Software Engineer

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...At Walmart, we prioritize innovation and data security. Our team is dedicated to maintaining a secure operating environment and preserving the trust of our customers, associates, and stakeholders. We combine a range of services and expertise to prevent fraud, detect threats, and manage digital risk and access. Our focus is on mitigating attack risks, securing cloud transformation, and fostering a culture of security and reliability within our team. The Information Security Services team works to protect, defend, and reduce risks across applications, platforms, infrastructure, and services to keep our assets and resources secure. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with information security expertise to help design and build secure, resilient services and AI-driven workflows for our Vulnerability management initiatives. You’ll sweep us off our feet if…. • You are an AI builder with expert software engineering skills and have begun creating applications and services using Agentic IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf. • You have experience in designing Agents and building MCP servers that support enterprise workflows, enable agentic communications and to integrate with other enterprise services. • You specialize in writing collectors and sensors to verify security controls across platforms, infrastructure, services, applications, and GIT repositories. • You have developed scalable APIs and data pipelines for gathering and aggregating security control data, using Java or Python. • You are accustomed to working collaboratively in a matrixed organizational structure. • You possess strong knowledge of the security domain, including vulnerabilities, security controls, and application security. • You have an in-depth understanding of service-to-service security and secure architectural patterns. • You have firsthand experience integrating with various security tools such as SAST, ASPM, and container scanners. • You are experienced in implementing telemetry and audit pipelines.

: • Create and maintain secure APIs along with frameworks for service-to-service and Agentic communications. • Architect scalable, universally available backend systems that process and validate security control evidence. • Build resilient integrations across security tooling ecosystems (scanners, CI/CD, internal APIs). • Develop telemetry pipelines that help preserve audit integrity and traceability. • Build consumer APIs and aggregate data originating from telemetry signals and sensors, in a scalable backend database. • Write SQL queries or equivalent to ingest, update and retrieve data from the backend. • Manage and support Agents, MCP servers, APIs, and infrastructure components that form part of our Vulnerability management ecosystem. • Incorporate AI-driven workflows that include safeguards for secure coding and compliance validation. • Collaborate with Product Security, Compliance, and Platform teams to automate thousands of security validation tasks. • Reduce security review cycle times while strengthening control consistency and audit defensibility.