Director, Software Engineering
Walmart, IN KA BANGALORE Home Office Building 11
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 will 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.