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Staff, Application Security Engineer - Product Security

Walmart Bentonville, AR

Bentonville, AR

1d ago

$110k - $264k/yr Full time Application Security Cybersecurity Tools Defense In Depth

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Job Description

What Walmart offers

Join Walmart’s Information Security team in Bentonville, where you help secure the world’s largest retail operation. This role emphasizes security automation and governance layered into developer workflows, with secure-by-default guidance and audit-ready validation across Walmart’s application ecosystem. You will work onsite at 2501 Se J St, Ste A, Bentonville, AR, contributing to solutions that enable customers to Save Money and Live Better while supporting Fortune 1 priorities through scalable, automated governance.

Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
Financial benefits such as a 401(k), stock purchase opportunities, and company-paid life insurance
Comprehensive paid time off for vacation, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
Additional benefits including short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
PTO or PPTO that can be used for vacation, holidays, or other needs
Live Better U education benefit program and Walmart covering tuition, books, and fees
Opportunity to work on critical security initiatives that balance risk and business momentum

What you will do

Partner with technology and business stakeholders to embed security early in the product lifecycle
Define and govern secure architecture patterns, configuration standards, and enterprise control logic for scalable security validation
Develop deep knowledge of Walmart products and platforms to provide secure-by-default implementation guidance
Design and validate automated control logic that yields defensible, risk-aligned validation outcomes
Apply threat modeling, penetration and security testing, and code reviews to accelerate high-priority business initiatives
Evaluate SAST and SCA outputs to ensure accurate risk detection and reduce misconfiguration exposure
Serve as a trusted partner for architecture and configuration reviews that securely enable business initiatives
Map security controls to applicable compliance frameworks and generate reliable audit evidence
Build strong cross-functional partnerships to speed time to market while maintaining security integrity
Provide secure design, development, implementation, sustainment, and governance expertise across the application lifecycle
Document product security standards, validation logic, and governance decisions
Develop and evolve metrics to measure the effectiveness of automated product security controls
Mentor and share knowledge to advance secure engineering maturity and communicate clearly with stakeholders
Support Walmart’s priority initiatives through scalable, automated security governance
Embed secure standards and validation logic directly into engineering workflows to reduce manual security reviews
Collaborate on global solutions that help customers Save Money and Live Better
Demonstrate deep expertise in OWASP risks, secure coding patterns, and threat modeling; define secure-by-default standards and risk tradeoffs
Governs secure architecture and configuration baselines across enterprise environments, including authorization models, database hardening, and input validation frameworks
Design and validate security controls, map them to compliance frameworks, and produce defensible audit evidence
Align technical security decisions with enterprise risk modeling and risk acceptance frameworks
Enjoy solving complex technical challenges while partnering to accelerate scalable business initiatives

Requirements

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related field plus 4 years of experience in application security or a related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company
Option 2: 6 years of experience in application security or a related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company

Technologies

SAST
SCA

Location and compensation

Primary location is onsite in Bentonville, Arkansas. Salary ranges reflect location and experience. The annual base salary range is USD 110,000 to 264,000, with Bentonville listed as 110,000 to 220,000 and Herndon listed as 132,000 to 264,000. Additional compensation may include annual or quarterly performance bonuses, and stock for certain positions.

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