Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Walmart is hiring a passionate technology and engineering leader who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment, to work across multiple organizations and help drive end to solution engineering for the Edge Platform. This Engineering leader will lead multiple Edge teams and develop and implement new innovative software solutions, which scale significantly with business demand and enhance Walmart's cloud platforms. This team takes pride in developing, maintaining and enhancing multiple massive clusters of front-end-optimizing (FEO) reverse proxies with on the fly content rewriting, image resizing, caching, request-response life-cycle and Lua event handler execution (all multi domain/tenant). Team owns the responsibilities of development, deployment and operation of a Walmart's multi-CDN ecosystem involving BGP/anycast, DNS servers and peer-to-peer health monitoring.
Come join the Edge Platform team at Walmart Global Tech. You will be involved in exciting innovative projects using distributed technologies and highly scaled environments. You will collaborate with internal teams, product and business people and vendors to get right solutions built and managed in production. As one cool example, Walmart sites experience enormous load during sales events and other special events. Currently our team is building a distributed queue using edge computing to try to handle this load better. This year we successfully launched first version of Queuing, there is lot more innovation and exciting things to be achieved there.
What You'll Do...

• Technically lead and mentor the team of high-performance engineering team, product owners and engineering managers, provide thought leadership across each of these functions to bring best efficiencies and quality.
• Build and manage relations with the business partners and understand their business requirements. Closely work with the Product Management, Architects, and cross-functional teams
• Work with stakeholders to define the future roadmap of the products, adopt latest technology innovation wherever necessary
• Build tools and automation to prevent re-occurrence of problems to mission-critical products and services and engender reliability and availability, starting with metrics and measurements
• Define engineering practices, product development patterns and drive products development to scale to Walmart requirements.
• Follow agile methodologies and program practices in product development lifecycle and focus on team productivity improvements using right tools and processes.

What You'll Bring...
You must be comfortable demonstrating technical expertise of the Cloud based solutions, CDN based platforms, networking topics, and distributed architectures. The goal of a Director, Software Engineering & Architecture is to lead teams in innovating solutions, building highly scalable systems that serve our customers and enable Retail Business needs.

• Overall 12+ years of experience and 4+ years of experience in a building & managing Cloud based systems role and at least 5 years in a leadership role with a Bachelor/Master's Engineering, Computer Science, or other related degrees.
• Strong Analytical, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders
• Ability to deep-dive and get the hands dirty during critical business and production issues.
• Experience in Java/Go and JS programming, CDNs, Load Balancers.
  
  • Knowledge in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
  • Expertise in at least one of Azure, GCP or AWS cloud platforms.
• Experience in maintaining a high availability cloud infrastructure, CDN platforms and understanding of best practices
• Demonstrated proficiency and experience in one or more of the following areas: systems and solutions architecture.
• Clear understanding of Agile development methodologies and experience with agile practices.
• Clear understanding of Security and Compliance needs for software platforms
• Understanding of Networking (load balancers, packet tracers, etc.). Hands-on experience in databases, messaging systems, ELK, and others

Benefits & Perks:
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
Who We Are?
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related field OR 8 years' experience in software
engineering or related field.
3 years' supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 5 years' experience in software engineering
Primary Location...
600 WEST CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-2486, United States of America