SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

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What you'll do...

About the Team

Walmart’s Global Tech Platforms organization builds the tools, platforms, and services used by thousands of engineers across the company. Builder Experience and CI/CD Platform organization is part of the Tech Platforms organization. The team develops foundational capabilities for build automation, testing, security validation, release management, deployment orchestration, and developer workflows. Our mission is to improve engineering velocity and provide consistent, reliable software-delivery experiences at Walmart scale.

What You’ll Do

As an Engineering Manager on the Builder Experience & CI/CD Platforms team, you will lead the development of platforms that improve how Walmart engineers build, test, secure, release, and deploy software.

• 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.

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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where a single line of code can improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people. That is the impact we create at Walmart Global Tech. We are a global team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals shaping the future of retail through technology. We are people-led and technology-empowered, investing in future-ready skills while bringing together experts who can innovate at scale. Whether you are beginning your career or looking for an opportunity that will define it, Walmart Global Tech offers the scale, complexity, and breadth to build new skills, solve meaningful problems, and reimagine the future of retail.

Work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart. We believe working together helps us innovate, learn, and build rewarding careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for day-to-day work, with flexibility to help associates manage their personal commitments.

Benefits
In addition to a competitive compensation package, associates may receive performance-based incentive awards. Benefits include bonuses, stock options, paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off, multiple health plans, and other programs that support associates and their families.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people

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