Position Summary...

As a Distinguished Engineer on the Developer Productivity & CI/CD Platforms team, you will define and drive the long-term technical vision for Walmart’s enterprise Developer Productivity and CI/CD platforms. Your work will enable thousands of engineers to build, test, secure, release, and deploy software efficiently and reliably.

This is a hands-on individual-contributor leadership role requiring deep expertise in Java, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD technologies, Jenkins, Linux, and platform engineering. You will be a hands-on contributer and will shape platform strategy, lead critical architectural decisions, solve the organization’s most difficult engineering problems, and mentor Principal, Staff, and senior engineers.

You will partner with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and application teams to create scalable, secure, and intuitive developer-platform capabilities that support diverse technology stacks and deployment environments.

What you'll do...

About the Team

Walmart’s Global Tech Platforms organization builds the tools, platforms, and services used by thousands of engineers across the company. Developer Productivity and CI/CD Platform organization is part of the Tech Platforms organization. The team develops foundational capabilities for build automation, testing, security validation, release management, deployment orchestration, and developer workflows. Our mission is to improve engineering velocity and provide consistent, reliable software-delivery experiences at Walmart scale.

What You’ll Do

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Walmart’s CI/CD ecosystem.
• Lead the design of scalable, secure, and reliable CI/CD platforms, pipeline orchestration, build, release, and deployment services.
• Solve complex distributed-system and production challenges while staying hands-on implementation, reviews, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Improve developer experience, platform standards, and AI-enabled workflows while partnering with leaders and mentoring senior engineers.

What You’ll Bring

• Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise-scale platform engineering.
• Extensive experience building or operating CI/CD systems, developer platforms, or internal engineering tools.
• Strong knowledge of build systems, pipeline orchestration, artifact management, automated testing, deployment strategies, and release automation.
• Expert-level Java and JVM knowledge, including concurrency, multithreading, profiling, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, RESTful services, event-driven systems, Kafka, databases, and microservices.
• Deep understanding of Linux, containers, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing secure platforms with appropriate identity, access, secrets, policy, isolation, and audit controls.
• Ability to reason across the full platform stack, from developer experience and APIs to runtime infrastructure and operations.
• Proven ability to lead technical strategy and influence decisions across teams without relying on formal authority.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex trade-offs to technical and business leaders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 16+ years of relevant software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed-systems experience.
• Experience defining architecture and technical strategy for enterprise platforms used across multiple teams or business units.
• 5+ years of experience applying Agile principles and guiding execution across engineering teams.
• Expert proficiency in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, REST services, concurrency, and JVM performance.
• Deep experience with CI/CD platforms, Jenkins, build systems, artifact repositories, testing frameworks, and deployment automation.
• Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging technologies and relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong production expertise covering monitoring, logging, tracing, debugging, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-organizational architecture and mentor Principal, Staff, and senior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting an Internal Developer Platform used by thousands of engineers.
• Experience modernizing large or fragmented CI/CD environments into standardized, self-service platforms.
• Expertise in large-scale build system design - you have architected or led CI infrastructure serving tens of thousands of engineers, with hands-on knowledge of distributed build orchestration, multi-master topologies, agent/runner lifecycle management, and dynamic scaling under burst workloads
• Experience operating Jenkins or comparable pipeline technologies at enterprise scale.
• Experience designing multi-tenant control planes, workflow engines, schedulers, or distributed execution systems.
• Knowledge of progressive delivery, policy-driven deployment, automated rollback, and release orchestration.
• Experience with software-supply-chain security, artifact provenance, policy as code, and dependency governance.
• Experience applying generative AI, LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems to developer-productivity or operational use cases.
• Familiarity with React, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, or Go.
• Experience with open-source technologies, performance engineering, cost optimization, or global enterprise platforms.

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.

Flexible Work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Our Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, organization-level technical leader with a passion for developer productivity, cloud computing, and solving complex platform problems at scale. They combine deep technical judgment with strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills and are comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor'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.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (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.

Primary Location...

Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India