(USA) Director, Software Engineering

Position Summary

The Director, Software Engineering — DDI role leads Walmart’s enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IPAM engineering organization, shaping the strategy, architecture, and execution of mission‑critical network identity services across stores, eCommerce, logistics, and private cloud. This is an opportunity to lead at exceptional scale—setting long‑term technical direction, growing a high‑performing engineering organization, and delivering foundational infrastructure that supports millions of customers and associates every day.

About the team

The DDI engineering team manages critical DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services supporting Walmart’s stores, eCommerce, logistics, private cloud, and associate platforms. Operating at enterprise scale, the team designs and maintains resilient, secure, and automation‑driven infrastructure to ensure system reliability and availability. Collaborating closely with network, cloud, security, and retail technology teams, they focus on modernizing core services and enhancing operational excellence. This team delivers dependable network identity platforms essential to Walmart’s daily business operations, driving innovation and continuous improvement across complex, large‑scale environments.

What you’ll do

• Set the Strategy and Direction for DDI: Own roadmap, priorities, and success measures.
• Lead Architecture and Platform Evolution: Modernize scalable, resilient, cloud‑ready DDI platforms.
• Drive Delivery of Foundational Services: Deliver reliable services with quality and operational rigor.
• Lead Engineering Execution End to End: Apply DevOps, SRE, monitoring, and change discipline.
• Shape Services Around Customer Needs: Translate customer needs into measurable engineering priorities.
• Build and Lead the Engineering Organization: Grow accountable, collaborative, high‑performing teams.
• Advance Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Use automation, AI, and vendor insight to improve services.
• Communicate Clearly and Lead Across Functions: Align strategy, standards, and execution across partners.

What you’ll bring

Technical and Domain Leadership

• Deep DDI Expertise: Strong command of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM architectures, operations, and engineering patterns in large‑scale enterprise environments.
• Hybrid and Cloud Experience: Experience leading DDI services across on‑prem, virtualized, Kubernetes, and major cloud environments.
• Security and Operational Rigor: Familiarity with enterprise DNS security controls, resiliency practices, and service governance.

Organizational and Executive Leadership

• Organizational Leadership: Proven success leading and scaling engineering organizations through managers and senior technical leaders.
• Talent and Team Development: Experience building strong teams through coaching, performance management, succession planning, and organizational design.
• Executive Presence: Ability to influence across functions and communicate clearly with technical, product, and business leaders.

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.

3 years' supervisory experience.

Primary Location

2245 Monroe St, Herndon, VA 20171, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity—unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions—while being inclusive of all people.

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 (

The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $312,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock