Director, Software Engineering

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Director of Software Engineering to manage the Display AdServing system, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. The role involves overseeing the full software development lifecycle, driving technical excellence through DevOps and cloud optimization, and fostering high-performing teams. The team builds advanced services to understand shopper intent, serve relevant ads, and optimize campaign performance, emphasizing project management, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead execution of complex software, data, and AI/ML systems ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and integration across platforms.
  2. Oversee full software development lifecycle, championing DevOps practices and cloud cost optimization to enhance engineering efficiency.
  3. Collaborate with XFN teams, including Product, Data Science and other engineering teams, to build roadmap and deliver features that support business objectives and drive up advertisers' ROAS.
  4. Apply sound technical judgment to resolve issues and drive continuous improvement in processes and products.
  5. Build and mentor high-performing teams, fostering professional growth and succession planning.

Skills

Required

  • Proven leadership in managing complex software, data, and ML systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and integration.
  • Excellent skills in problem solving, roadmap alignment, project management, XFN communication and stakeholder management.
  • 2+ years experience of managing teams through leaders.
  • Effective coaching and mentorship capabilities to build high-performing engineering teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area OR 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • 3 years' supervisory experience.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with AdTech and AI/ML applications in online advertising.
  • Humility with high integrity, customer empathy and engineering excellence.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 5 years' experience in software engineering

What the JD emphasized

  • AI/ML systems
  • advertisers' ROAS
  • AdTech
  • AI/ML applications in online advertising

Other signals

  • Display AdServing system
  • AI/ML systems
  • advertisers' ROAS
  • AdTech
  • AI/ML applications in online advertising