Director, Software Engineering

About the role

Traffic Foundation builds the platforms that direct, protect and accelerate digital traffic for Walmart customers and associates. 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.

What you'll do

• Lead the multi CDN strategy; Define how Walmart uses multiple CDN providers to improve performance
• 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
• 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

What you need

• 10–18 years in software engineering
• Web performance
• Incident response
• Any graduate