Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Senior Manager, Software Engineering for Room and Collaboration Tech at Walmart, leading design, development, and operation of enterprise-scale digital platforms. Focuses on partnering with product, infrastructure, data, and operations teams to deliver high-impact systems, build engineering talent, and drive modern software practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead & Scale Engineering Teams - Own multiple software engineering teams responsible for building and operating critical DIAS platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and security at enterprise scale.
  2. Drive Technical Strategy & Architecture - Define and evolve system architecture, integration patterns, and engineering standards that enable scalability, resilience, and rapid innovation across distributed systems.
  3. Partner Across the Enterprise - Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Operations leaders to align roadmaps, prioritize outcomes, and deliver end-to-end solutions that meet business needs.
  4. Operational Excellence & Reliability - Ensure strong operational rigor through SRE practices, telemetry, automation, CI/CD maturity, and proactive incident prevention, with clear ownership of service health and outcomes.
  5. Talent Development & Culture - Hire, coach, and develop high-performing engineers and engineering managers while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years leading managers and/or multiple teams in a large-scale environment
  • distributed systems
  • cloud-native architectures
  • APIs
  • data pipelines
  • enterprise integrations
  • reliability
  • observability
  • incident management
  • automation-driven operations
  • Product & Platform Thinking
  • People Leadership