Walmart Global Tech's Site Reliability Engineering team seeks a Director to lead the transformation of traditional SRE practices into AI-powered, self-healing systems. This role involves designing high-availability platforms and building tools for reliability, scalability, and performance optimization across Walmart’s e-commerce, stores, and omni-channel platform. You will collaborate with leadership to establish strategic plans, define service level objectives, and ensure systems meet strict availability requirements. The ideal candidate has expert-level AI/ML engineering experience, including deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch, and proficiency in cloud-native services, observability tools, and platform engineering practices such as Kubernetes and Terraform. Experience with large-scale retail or e-commerce systems is preferred, along with a strong background in technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration across diverse technology stacks.
Design and build tools to enhance reliability, latency, availability, and scalability of Walmart's tech stack.
Drive the creation and scaling of fault-tolerant systems in hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Establish strategic plans with leadership to improve mean time to detect and restore issues.
Define SLOs and SLIs to ensure systems meet service level agreements.
Develop AI/ML engineering solutions for intelligent capacity management and predictive performance optimization.
What we're looking for
Expert-level AI/ML engineering with deep knowledge of machine learning algorithms and production ML system deployment.
Advanced experience with agentic AI systems including multi-agent frameworks and autonomous decision-making platforms.
Comprehensive Site Reliability Engineering expertise, including service management and performance engineering for AI/ML systems.
Expert-level cloud engineering skills with Azure, GCP, AWS, and deep knowledge of cloud-native AI/ML services.
Deep observability and monitoring expertise using distributed tracing, metrics collection, log aggregation, APM tools, and predictive monitoring.
Industry experience in large-scale retail or e-commerce systems with strict availability requirements.
Technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills across diverse engineering teams.
Market check
Salary context
This
$169,000–$338,000
range sits above
92%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$143,000–$237,125
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$165,000–$214,500
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
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Employer
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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