Platform Engineering Lead, Payments & Reliability

Walmart Inc.

Bellevue (WA)

Hybrid

USD 132,000 - 264,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match
Stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Parental leave

Job summary

Walmart Inc. in Bellevue, WA seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the execution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple teams, owning delivery, architecture, and operational excellence.

You will drive cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, observability, and security, guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in a regulated payments environment.

Qualifications

  • Option 1: Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/related and 5 years' software experience.
  • Option 2: 7 years' software experience with 2 years supervisory experience.
  • Master's degree in CS/CE/related and 3 years in software engineering or related area (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Lead platform-level execution for highly available, distributed payment systems.
  • Drive architecture for payment processing, routing, authorization, retries, reversals, and resiliency.
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, telemetry, and production readiness.
  • Partner with product, architecture, security, operations, and payment stakeholders to meet compliance and certification requirements.
  • Guide architectural decisions for scalability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization.
  • Mentor engineers and establish metrics for availability and platform health.

Skills

Engineering leadership
Payments domain knowledge
Cloud-native architecture
DevOps & CI/CD
Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/related
Master's degree in CS/CE/related

Job description

Walmart Inc. in Bellevue, WA seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the execution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple teams, owning delivery, architecture, and operational excellence.

You will drive cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, observability, and security, guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in a regulated payments environment.

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