Position Summary...
What you'll do...At Walmart, Distinguished Engineers are enterprise-wide technical leaders who shape long-term strategy, drive innovation at scale, and influence outcomes across multiple organizations. We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the evolution of our Last Mile Driver Platform, focusing on Driver Trust & Safety, Earnings, Compliance, Risk Controls and Scalable Systems. This role combines deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to solve complex, high-impact problems affecting driver experience, platform integrity, and regulatory adherence. You will operate as a force multiplier, setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and aligning business, product, and engineering strategies across the enterprise. What You'll Do: Enterprise Technical Leadership (Walmart Distinguished Expectations)
- Define and drive multi-year technical strategy and architecture aligned with Walmart’s business priorities.
- Act as a company-wide technical authority, influencing decisions across multiple teams and domains.
- Lead cross-organizational initiatives that span engineering, product, compliance, and operations.
- Establish and uphold engineering excellence standards across scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, using metrics and data to guide strategic decisions.
Platform Architecture & Scale
- Design and operate highly scalable distributed systems supporting 15,000+ transactions per second with high availability and low latency.
- Drive architectural patterns for resilience, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Lead modernization toward cloud-native, event-driven architectures.
Driver Trust, Safety & Compliance
- Architect systems to ensure driver trust and safety, including fraud detection, identity verification, and risk mitigation.
- Build scalable solutions for regulatory compliance across regions, including driver onboarding, verification, and audits.
- Partner with legal and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into technical systems.
- Proven Experience building Risk and Compliance Platform.
Driver Earnings & Experience
- Lead design of earnings platforms, including real-time earning calculation, incentives, payouts, and transparency tools.
- Experienced with ACH , Instant Payout, Payment processor integration
- Use experimentation and analytics to optimize driver engagement, retention, and fairness.
Security, IT Compliance, Identity & Data Protection
- Define enterprise-grade Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ) strategies.
- Drive implementation for ITGC, SOX
- Ensure data security, privacy, and governance across all systems.
- Drive adoption of secure-by-design principles and compliance with internal and external standards.
Data Platform & AI Enablement
- Architect and scale a modern data lake and data platform supporting batch and real-time workloads.
- Leverage AI/ML and knowledge systems for fraud detection, compliance automation, and driver insights.
- Enable data-driven decision-making through high-quality, governed data systems.
Vendor Integrations & Ecosystem
- Lead integrations with multiple external vendors (payments, identity, compliance, risk, etc.).
- Build extensible frameworks for rapid and secure partner onboarding.
Cross-Functional Alignment & Influence
- Align engineering efforts with business goals, product strategy, and operational needs.
- Influence across a matrixed organization, driving consensus among diverse stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical strategies in terms of business impact and measurable outcomes.
Mentorship & Talent Development
- Mentor and coach engineers across levels, fostering technical growth and leadership development.
- Raise the bar for engineering craftsmanship and innovation across Walmart.
- Contribute to hiring, talent strategy, and succession planning.
What You'll Bring: Experience
- 20+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant time in large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven impact at Staff+, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer level.
- Experience leading enterprise-wide or cross-domain technical initiatives.
- Proven domain knowledge for gig delivery or Risk & Fraud or Earning & Compliance.
Technical Expertise
- Deep expertise in:
- Distributed systems and high-scale architectures
- AuthN/AuthZ and security frameworks
- Data platforms, data lakes, and real-time processing
- Cloud-native technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- API design and third-party integrations
- Strong understanding of compliance, risk, and regulatory systems.
AI & Data
- Experience applying AI/ML to real-world problems (fraud, recommendations, automation).
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and security frameworks.
Leadership & Walmart Distinguished Traits
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Influence across organizations without direct authority
- Drive alignment across engineering, product, and business
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