Director, Software Engineering

About the role

Position Summary... As Director of Software Engineering, you will lead engineering managers and senior individual contributors across CDN Platforms and Static Asset Optimization. You will set the direction for the organization and connect platform strategy, architecture, delivery, operations and talent into a coherent multiyear plan.

What you'll do...

About Team:

Traffic Foundation builds the platforms that direct, protect and accelerate digital traffic for Walmart customers and associates. Our systems operate globally across content delivery networks, edge computing, traffic management and application delivery.

The CDN Platforms and Static Asset Optimization teams move digital experiences closer to customers through multi CDN delivery, edge computing and content optimization. Their work improves how web experiences, images, video and other static content are delivered while reducing origin demand and infrastructure cost.

The teams also build shared capabilities for high demand events and partner with application teams to improve Site Speed. Common observability and resiliency mechanisms help Walmart prepare for traffic growth, holiday events and provider or regional failures.

What will you do

- Lead the multi CDN strategy; Define how Walmart uses multiple CDN providers to improve performance, availability and capacity while preserving provider choice and commercial flexibility. Establish the strategy for traffic placement, provider qualification, automated failover and recovery.

- Shape edge compute interoperability; Create a consistent way to build, test and operate capabilities across runtimes such as Akamai EdgeWorkers, Cloudflare Workers and Fastly Compute. Use common contracts and selectively adopt standards such as WinterTC, WebAssembly and WASI where they offer practical interoperability.

- Set the direction for Static Asset Optimization; Lead the platforms that optimize and deliver images, video and other static content. Improve customer performance and content quality while reducing bandwidth, origin demand and infrastructure cost.

- Lead platforms for high demand experiences; Set the direction for capabilities that manage exceptional demand, protect constrained inventory and prevent dependent systems from being overwhelmed. Evolve Draw and Queuing as shared platforms that can support major events across markets and business units.

- Make Site Speed a shared engineering outcome; Establish clear measures based on real customer experience. Partner with application teams to identify and prioritize improvements across content delivery, caching and edge execution.

- Build observability across the delivery path; Create a consistent view of traffic and experience health from the customer edge through origin systems. Help teams detect degradation early, isolate the responsible layer and understand customer impact.

- Own platform resiliency and readiness; Define standards for capacity planning, fault isolation, rollback, automated recovery and disaster recovery testing. Ensure the platforms are ready for holiday traffic, sudden demand and provider, regional or origin failures.