--- title: Director, Software Engineering at Walmart description: Walmart is hiring for the Director, Software Engineering role in Bentonville, AR. Pays $130K–$260K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/director-software-engineering-at-walmart-inc-01a0d55a-058d-7e4c-ad55-f9fb22496095 date: 2026-09-28T21:14:43Z og_description: Join Walmart as Director, Software Engineering in Bentonville, AR. Pays $130K–$260K per year. Full-time role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/lhqnya.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | Bentonville, AR | | **Salary** | $130K/yr - $260K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Sep 23, 2026 | ## Description ### Lead Technology Strategy - Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Traffic Foundation platforms. - Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to align platform investments with business priorities. - Establish engineering standards and best practices for scalability, reliability, and security. ### Build and Lead High-Performing Teams - Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers across global teams. - Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and operational excellence. - Drive talent development, organizational planning, and team growth. ### Deliver at Scale - Lead large, complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple organizations. - Oversee the design and operation of highly available, distributed systems supporting Walmart's critical applications. - Drive platform modernization, automation, and cloud adoption initiatives. ### Ensure Operational Excellence - Own the reliability, performance, and security of critical traffic infrastructure. - Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts. - Establish and monitor key operational and engineering metrics. ​**What You'll Bring** - Proven success building, developing, and scaling high-performing engineering organizations. - Deep expertise in distributed systems, networking, and traffic management technologies. - Experience with Layer 4 and Layer 7 routing, load balancing, proxies, caching, and edge services. - Strong understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS, and cloud-native architectures. - Experience operating large-scale production systems across thousands of servers. - Experience delivering large, complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple organizations. - Working knowledge of modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or similar technologies. - Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills. - Experience with Azure, Kubernetes, platform engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. - Experience building or operating high-performance proxies, API gateways, CDNs, or service mesh technologies. - Proven track record of driving platform strategy, organizational growth, and engineering excellence. - Experience leading globally distributed teams and organizations. 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 . 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](https://one.walmart.com/). Sunnyvale, California US-11657: The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00 Bentonville, Arkansas US-30095: The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock ## Skills - Service Mesh - Cloud Computing - Stakeholder Management - Influencing - Go - Content Delivery Network (Cdn) - English Language - Caching - Platform Strategy - API Gateway - Automation - HTTP/HTTPS - Root Cause Analysis - Microsoft Azure - Cloud Architecture - Kubernetes - Talent Development - Continuous Improvement Process - Presentation Skills - Incident Response - Site Reliability Engineering - Rust - Traffic Management - Driving - Platform Engineering - Domain Name System - Communication - Transmission Control Protocol (Tcp) - TCP/IP - Java - Load Balancing - Transport Layer Security (Tls) - Site Reliability Engineering (Sre) - Distributed Systems ## Benefits - Health Insurance - Dental Insurance - Vision Insurance - Disability Insurance - Life Insurance - Parental Leave - Paid Time Off (Pto) - Sick Leave - 401(k) Plans ## How to Apply [Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/director-software-engineering-at-walmart-inc-01a0d55a-058d-7e4c-ad55-f9fb22496095?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Related - [More jobs at Walmart](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/walmart?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown)