Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Walmart · Posted Oct 13
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
Walmart's Global Tech Platforms organization builds the tools, platforms, and services used by thousands of engineers across the company, and the Builder Experience and CI/CD Platform organization develops foundational capabilities for build automation, testing, security validation, release management, deployment orchestration, and developer workflows. The technology environment includes Java, Maven, Jenkins, Spring, Kafka, REST APIs, GraphQL, Python, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Azure, GCP, distributed systems, and cloud-native microservices. As an Engineering Manager on this team, you will lead a team building and operating Walmart's enterprise builder experience and CI/CD platforms, set engineering priorities and roadmaps, guide architecture, and hire, coach, and develop engineers.
What you will do
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
- Partner with product and senior leadership to define technical strategy, roadmaps, and priorities.
- Lead the delivery of large-scale, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Guide architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native platforms.
- Remove execution barriers, manage dependencies, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
- Improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and software-development processes through automation and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and business teams across the United States and India.
- Contribute to Walmart's broader engineering community and uphold its values and standards.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong technical expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native development, databases, messaging, and API design.
- Hands-on product/platform development experience and the ability to guide teams through complex technical challenges.
- Experience delivering large, cross-functional programs and managing dependencies across teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and execution skills.
- A people-first leadership approach with a strong focus on ownership, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering in Computer Science or a related field.
- 15+ years of software-engineering experience, including at least 3 years of people-management experience.
- Strong Java/J2EE and cloud-native software-development experience.
- Strong understanding of the software-development lifecycle, architecture, databases, and messaging technologies.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience leading full-stack developer-platform, developer-productivity, platform-engineering, or CI/CD products.
Benefits and support
- Performance-based incentive awards
- Bonuses
- Stock options
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- Paid time off
- Multiple health plans
- Other programs that support associates and their families
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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