Walmart
Walmart
Walmart is a global retail and eCommerce company serving consumers through hypermarkets, discount department stores, grocery locations, and an online marketplace. Its broad product offering is supported by a large physical-store network, direct-to-consumer operations, and the logistics and supply-chain systems needed to keep products moving across the business.

Senior Director of Software Engineering – Bangalore, India

Lead Walmart’s orchestration platforms in Bangalore across Kubernetes, virtual machines, devices, and workflow systems. Shape cloud infrastructure reliability, automation, cost efficiency, and the growth of the engineering organization.

Description

  • Lead the Orchestration Foundation team within Walmart’s Runtime Platform at the India Development Center
  • Set the roadmap and deliver results across WCNP Kubernetes, OneOps, DOP, continuous profiling, cost optimization, and autonomous operations
  • Direct architecture decisions for the orchestration layer and take ownership of platform design
  • Work with architects and engineers to resolve complex design and operational challenges
  • Improve reliability, latency, throughput, availability, cloud utilization, and infrastructure costs
  • Create automation that reduces manual operations and advances autonomous platform management
  • Define OKRs, metrics, delivery cadences, milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment
  • Collaborate with Runtime Platform peers, GTP leadership, security, finance, and application teams
  • Shape the engineering organization, recruit senior engineers and architects, and oversee calibration, promotions, and performance
  • Build the shared, multi-tenant WCNP platform model and standardized onboarding processes
  • Lead security, compliance, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery testing, SLOs, and SLAs

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical discipline
  • At least 18 years of software engineering experience focused on platform infrastructure, distributed systems, or cloud-native technologies
  • At least 6 years of senior engineering leadership experience, including management of teams with 30 or more engineers
  • Deep production experience with Kubernetes and enterprise container orchestration
  • Experience owning and delivering platform products across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Track record of defining and executing technology roadmaps spanning multiple years
  • Experience achieving measurable infrastructure cost savings and operational efficiency improvements at scale
  • Strong communication skills and experience presenting to senior leadership
  • A bachelor’s degree with 7 years of software engineering or related experience, or 9 years of such experience including 4 years in a supervisory role
  • Working knowledge of Azure and Google Cloud Platform for production workloads
  • Experience operating Kubernetes and virtual machine platforms across private data centers and store-edge environments
  • Experience designing large-scale, complex systems from the ground up
  • Experience establishing OKRs, metrics, and execution processes for large engineering programs
  • Experience designing engineering organizations, hiring, managing calibration and promotions, and developing senior individual contributors and engineering managers

Benefits

  • Performance-based incentive awards
  • Maternity and parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Health benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements to help manage personal commitments

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