(IND) GROUP DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Walmart Global Tech India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive awards

Health benefits

PTO

Maternity and parental leave

Job summary

A leading global technology firm in Bengaluru seeks a Group Director of Software Engineering to oversee runtime teams and traffic management globally. This pivotal role will enable the candidate to lead a high-performing organization and drive innovation and operational excellence. With over 10 years of experience in platform development and cloud solutions, the ideal candidate is adept at managing large-scale platforms and ensuring compliance with global standards.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience in platform development.
• Experience with cloud networking and service mesh technologies.
• Proven track record of rapid service restoration.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams to design next-gen runtime platforms.
• Ensure compliance with global networking standards.
• Collaborate with product leaders to execute technology roadmap.

Skills

Managing large-scale platforms

Container and VM management

Cloud solutions

Kubernetes

Distributed networking

Traffic optimization

Strong communication skills

Collaboration abilities

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

GCP

AWS

Job description

Overview

About Team: Join a dynamic engineering team focused on transformation of Runtime platform (RTP). Runtime platform is the heart of Global Tech Platform and Walmart Application, where the org supports Traffic Management, Container Management, VM management, Configuration and Secrets. The team focuses on container management, traffic management, configuration, secrets and cloud platform. As part of Runtime platform, you will play a key role in driving the Runtime organization at IDC owning the delivery of runtime products and initiatives with a focus on driving global Traffic Management function.

Traffic Platform Vision is “Enable Walmart to serve customers using efficient, cost effective, modern routing stack that unlocks potential for multi-cloud application deployments.” The Traffic Management team focuses on all incoming and outgoing traffic for Walmart applications and business. It involves CDN infrastructure, proxy and load balancer, Global DNS within Walmart, API management, MGQL, software load balancer and edge technologies like eBPF.

Today, the traffic platform supports 10M requests/second across various applications, personas, and requests, making it a mission-critical software to run Walmart business effectively with security and reliability.

What you'll do

The Group Director of Software Engineering will be a pivotal technology leader overseeing delivery and people management for runtime teams at IDC and Traffic Management globally.

• Lead a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and run the next-generation runtime platform at IDC and traffic platform globally.
• Build and nurture a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
• Proactively identify and address customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.
• Enforce a strong platform mindset to build products that support business innovation and growth while maintaining operational excellence for business continuity.
• Provide technology direction and oversight for IDC teams working on Container and VM management, secrets and configuration platform, with primary focus on Traffic Platform.
• Collaborate with peers in runtime teams to build a cohesive and integrated offering across the runtime technology stack.
• Understand the current traffic ecosystem and business requirements and propose a forward-looking vision and strategy.
• Collaborate with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap for Traffic systems, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Provide technical depth in traffic and network products and build a platform for scale, unifying different traffic products into a single platform with policies across hops.
• Ensure compliance with global networking and security standards, including DDoS protection and rate limiting.
• Lead edge computing and CDN strategy to optimize traffic distribution and reduce latency.
• Enable best-of-breed recommendations in traffic (e.g., queuing, rate limiting, edge computing, traffic prioritization, segmentation, circuit breakers) to provide the best class customer experience with improved safety.
• Continuously optimize cost, efficiency and improve availability, performance and resiliency posture.
• Translate executive goals into roadmaps and initiatives, drive initiatives through strategic decision-making, and define and deliver objectives and key results with metrics-driven success measures.
• This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmart Global Technology Platform.

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in managing large-scale platforms, focusing on container and VM management, secrets and configurations platform, traffic, ingress, egress, and network flow.
• Over 10 years of experience in platform development, cloud solutions, and delivering large-scale web events and traffic.
• In-depth knowledge of running large-scale Kubernetes and VMs, distributed networking, edge computing, and cloud-native traffic optimization.
• Practical experience with cloud networking (Azure, GCP, AWS), Kubernetes networking, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd).
• Proficient in TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and application layer traffic.
• Familiar with traffic policies and best practices such as rate limiting, traffic shaping, and DDoS mitigation.
• Proven track record of enhancing operational excellence and achieving service restoration within 5 minutes through observability and automation-enabled service recovery.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for driving vision, motivating teams, and engaging executive leaders.
• Experience with contributing to or delivering open-source products in the traffic and network domain is advantageous.
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities, capable of building robust relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functional boundaries, build consensus, and align diverse teams toward shared objectives.
• Success in hiring, mentoring, and developing top-tier engineering talent—establishing high-performance and impactful teams.
• Holds a BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) with over 20 years of industry experience in engineering and technology leadership.
• A strong inclination toward innovation, committed to advancing technology solutions and introducing new methods to address complex challenges.

About Walmart Global Tech

About Walmart Global Tech Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits, maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Location

Primary Location: Building 10 (SEZ), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, India

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area; 5 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’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.
• We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
• The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.