Director, Software Engineering

Lead strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Walmart's enterprise Kubernetes platform supporting thousands of mission-critical applications globally.

Own platform reliability, availability, and operational excellence including SLO-based operations, incident reduction, and resilience in multi-region, multi-cloud environments.

Build and manage a global team of platform engineers, driving best practices and continuous improvement in container platform services including AI/ML workloads.

Bachelor of Engineering degree or closely related discipline.

15+ years experience in building and operating large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform solutions.

Strong expertise in Kubernetes (cluster architecture, control plane, scheduling, networking, storage, observability) and cloud-native ecosystem.

Experience leading large or medium distributed platform teams with managers across multiple geographies.

Proven ability managing enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms at scale across hybrid and multi-cloud environments including disaster recovery.

Experienced in building self-service developer platforms and CI/CD ecosystems focusing on developer productivity and platform adoption.

Strong operational ownership in availability, security, cost management, and stakeholder influence for large-scale production systems.