Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Bentonville, AR

2403 Se J St
Bentonville, AR

R-2603530

$110,000 - $220,000/yr

Regular/ Permanent

Role summary:
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering, leads platform-level execution of software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and roadmap milestones. This role oversees infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks that support scalable, secure development while driving full lifecycle management across multiple teams. The position champions Dev Ops practices, cloud cost optimization, and technical excellence to deliver high-availability systems. Collaborating across engineering, product, and data teams, the manager guides architectural decisions, mentors engineers, and manages complex initiatives to achieve business goals with a focus on continuous improvement and operational success.

Our team spans the US and India, developing systems that manage software dependencies across thousands of repositories. We enforce software lifecycle and security policies in production, automate CI/CD failure diagnosis and remediation using AI and machine learning, and enhance CI/CD experiences. Combining platform engineering, distributed systems, developer experience, AI-driven architecture, security, and compliance, the team emphasizes automation, self-service, reliability, and reducing engineering effort s collaborative environment fosters innovation and operational excellence to effectively support Walmart’s technology objectives.

What you’ll do:

• Lead platform-level execution of software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with domain priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Oversee shared infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks to support scalable, secure, and reusable development.
• Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, promoting Dev Ops architecture and CI/CD best practices.
• Manage cloud cost optimization and enhance automation, telemetry, and tooling to reduce operational friction.
• Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and uphold technical quality and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals and track key performance metrics.
• Foster continuous improvement through innovation, experimentation, and effective project delivery.

What you’ll bring:

• Provenleadershipinplatformengineering,overseeingsoftwareandAI/MLsystemexecutionalignedwithstrategicroadmaps.
• Expertiseinmanagingfullsoftwaredevelopmentlifecycle,including
  
  DevOpsarchitectureandCI/CD practices.
• Experienceguidingarchitecturalreviewsandsystemdesignforscalable,maintainable,andhigh-performance platforms.
• Abilitytoleadcross-functional teams,mentor engineers,andfostertechnicalexcellenceandcontinuousimprovement.
• Proficientinstakeholdermanagement,aligningtechnicalinitiativeswithbusinessgoalsandtrackingkeyperformanceindicators.
• Demonstrated problem-solvingaptitudeandstrategicexecutionincomplextechnicalenvironments.
• Strongin Java,J2EE,Spring,JVMinternals,concurrency,multithreading,serviceorientedarchitecture,andRESTfulwebservices.
• Solidfundamentalsinalgorithms,data structures,SQL,andrelationaldatabases

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or…