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 Manager, Software Engineering – Developer Platforms

Lead Walmart’s enterprise developer experience and CI/CD platforms, helping engineers deliver software at scale. Build cloud-native tools that strengthen delivery across Walmart’s engineering teams.

Description

  • Lead Walmart’s enterprise developer experience and CI/CD platforms.
  • Set engineering priorities and turn platform strategy into actionable roadmaps.
  • Make key architectural and technical decisions.
  • Oversee reliable delivery and operation of business-critical platform capabilities.
  • Hire, mentor, and develop engineers.
  • Promote ownership, engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Work with product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
  • Deliver developer platform capabilities that are scalable, secure, and intuitive.
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies, align stakeholders, and clear execution roadblocks.
  • Raise developer productivity, reliability, adoption, and operational efficiency.
  • Set technical strategy, roadmaps, and priorities with product and senior leaders.
  • Lead large, cross-functional engineering programs.
  • Oversee the architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-native platforms.
  • Advance software development through automation and ongoing process improvement.
  • Contribute to Walmart’s engineering community and uphold its values and standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related field plus five years of software engineering or related experience; or seven years of such experience plus two years of supervisory experience.
  • At least 15 years of software engineering experience, including three years managing people.
  • Strong Java/J2EE and cloud-native software development experience.
  • Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle, architecture, databases, and messaging technologies.
  • Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
  • Technical expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native development, databases, messaging, and API design.
  • Hands-on product or platform development experience.
  • Experience delivering large cross-functional programs and managing dependencies across teams.
  • Preferred: experience leading full-stack developer platforms, developer productivity, platform engineering, or CI/CD products.
  • Preferred: a master’s degree and three years of software engineering or related experience.
  • Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices is valued.

Benefits

  • Performance-based incentive awards.
  • Bonuses.
  • Stock options.
  • Paid maternity and parental leave.
  • Paid time off.
  • Multiple health plans.
  • Programs supporting associates and their families.
  • Flexibility to help associates manage personal commitments.

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