As the Sr. Distinguished Engineer for Fraud Technology, you will serve as the technical authority across both Engineering, Platform & Tools teams. You’ll drive the vision, architecture, and execution of scalable fraud detection systems, integrating model infrastructure, fraud APIs, internal tools, and platforms. This role plays a critical part in enabling a modern fraud ecosystem that is reliable, efficient, and innovation-ready.
What you'll do:
Architecture & Engineering Strategy
· Define and lead the architecture for fraud detection infrastructure across APIs, backend systems, and platform components.
· Design end-to-end technical solutions for fraud surfaces including Sign-in, Sign-up, Returns, Payment Risk, Driver and Seller Risk.
· Own architectural evolution for shared services like the Gateway Layers, Customer Identity Graph, Device Fingerprinting, and Risk APIs.
· Partner with platform teams to modernize key components such as databases, feature stores, and streaming/batch pipelines.
Platform & Tooling
· Lead development and scaling of critical internal tools
· Drive enhancements in Rules Engines ,Workflow Engines to support hybrid decision logic (rule + ML stack).
· Champion ML Ops and model lifecycle tooling to support training, deployment, monitoring, and governance at scale.
Execution Leadership
· Work closely with cross-functional pods to ensure timely and technically sound delivery of fraud solutions.
· Collaborate with QA and Release Engineering to strengthen production readiness, monitoring, and holiday resilience.
· Ensure architectural alignment and technical consistency across fraud initiatives globally.
Mentorship & Thought Leadership
· Mentor senior engineers and guide junior team members in technical and architectural decisions.
· Lead cross-org technical reviews and serve as a go-to expert on distributed systems and fraud infra.
· Advocate for best practices in security, scalability, cloud optimization, and cost efficiency.
Qualifications:
· 12+ years of experience in backend, systems, or platform engineering roles,
· Prior experience in fraud, risk, or identity domains is preferred
· Expertise in building large-scale, distributed backend systems and APIs.
· Strong understanding of real-time data processing, model inference pipelines, and infrastructure at scale.
· Proven success designing internal tooling for analyst, operations, or data science use cases.
· Experience driving architectural transformation across both application-level and platform-level domains.
· Deep knowledge of modern ML platforms, cloud-native services, and enterprise-grade system reliability.
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.
The annual salary range for this position is $208,000.00-$416,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 and7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 9 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 5 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...680 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4834, United States of America