Staff, Application Security Engineer - Product Security

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.