Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart Global Tech; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Paid maternity and parental leave

PTO

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the execution and evolution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple teams. You’ll own delivery, architecture, and strategy for highly available distributed systems, driving cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, and observability to ensure scale, security, and compliance in a regulated environment.

You will mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and partner with product, security, and payment

Qualifications

• Proven engineering leadership delivering large-scale, highly available distributed platforms in payments/fintech/retail environments.
• Strong understanding of the payment lifecycle: authorization, capture, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
• Experience with payment routing, gateways, processors, issuers, card networks, tokenization, and PCI DSS.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, CI/CD, observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform-level execution for highly available distributed payment systems aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Design architecture for payment processing, routing, authorization, retries, reversals, fallback, and resiliency.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure, shared tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, telemetry, and production readiness across teams.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and payment stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives while meeting compliance and certification requirements.
• Guide architectural decisions for scalability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen technical ownership, drive operational improvements, and establish metrics for availability and platform health.

Skills

Leadership

Payment platforms

Cloud-native

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Security

PCI DSS

Architecture

Job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do...The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the execution and evolution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple engineering teams. This role owns delivery, architecture, operational excellence, and technical strategy for highly available distributed systems while ensuring alignment with business priorities and roadmap commitments. The leader drives cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, observability, cost optimization, and payment-platform resiliency while guiding architectural decisions and engineering standards. The role also develops engineering talent, manages cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and ensures payment solutions meet scalability, security, compliance, performance, and reliability expectations in a complex, regulated transaction environment. About the team: The UPP Payments team builds and operates a scalable, fault-tolerant payments platform that supports enterprise transaction processing. The team works across cloud-native architecture, payment routing, resiliency, certification, security, and observability to deliver reliable payment experiences at scale. Engineers design intelligent routing, failover, and recovery capabilities that maintain stability during peak traffic and downstream disruptions. The team values strong technical ownership, engineering rigor, operational excellence, and continuous improvement while partnering across product, business, security, and payment ecosystems to expand platform capabilities across markets and support evolving business priorities.

What you'll do:

• Lead platform-level execution for highly available, distributed payment systems aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Drive architecture for payment processing, transaction routing, authorization, retries, reversals, fallback, and resiliency.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure, shared tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, telemetry, and production readiness across multiple teams.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, operations, and payment stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives while meeting compliance and certification requirements.
• Guide architectural decisions for scalability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen technical ownership, lead operational improvements, and establish metrics for availability, transaction success, latency, recovery, and platform health.

What you'll bring:

• Proven engineering leadership experience delivering large-scale, highly available distributed platforms in payments, fintech, retail, or transaction-intensive environments.
• Strong understanding of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, capture, reversal, refund, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
• Experience with payment routing, orchestration, failover, idempotency, gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, card networks, tokenization, and PCI DSS.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to guide architecture, manage production incidents, optimize cloud costs, mentor engineers, and enforce security and quality standards.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across product, business, compliance, security, operations, and external payment partners in complex, regulated environments.platforms across multiple engineering teams.

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 expert's 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.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and it's fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Benefits:

• Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
• 401(k) match
• stock purchase plan
• paid maternity and parental leave
• PTO
• multiple health plans
• and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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 PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00