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This mission-critical system underpins authentication and authorization for millions of customers worldwide, processing billions of requests per day across multiple markets and countries. In this role, you will operate at enterprise scale-driving foundational design decisions that ensure the platform remains secure-by-default, highly available, resilient, and performant, even under extreme growth and evolving threat landscapes.You will partner closely with security, infrastructure, product, and engineering leaders to modernize IAM capabilities, define reference architectures, and establish standards that influence teams across the organization. As Walmart accelerates into the AI era, you will help evolve IAM to support new interaction models, machine-to-machine identity, and policy-driven access controls-while maintaining rigorous compliance and privacy requirements. You will be accountable for advancing platform reliability and security posture, mentoring senior engineers, and delivering technology that is foundational to Walmart’s multi-billion-dollar business operations.\nWhat you'll do...\nAbout the team\nRun Time Platforms (RTP), a division of Global Technology Platform (GTP), is dedicated to developing products and platforms that empower application teams to efficiently deploy and manage runtime environments. This position focuses on our proprietary Identity and Access Management (IAM) system-a core, in-house solution. The IAM platform supports multiple businesses across various countries, handling billions of requests daily and serving as a critical component of our global operations.\nAs a Distinguished Engineer in Identity and Access Management (IAM) at Walmart, you will set the technical vision and lead the architecture of enterprise-scale IAM capabilities that protect Walmart’s digital ecosystem while enabling seamless experiences for customers, associates, and partners. You will drive end-to-end strategy for authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, and policy enforcement across a diverse portfolio of applications and platforms, ensuring solutions are secure-by-default, highly available, and built to operate at massive scale.\nYou will operate as a cross-organization technical leader-partnering with engineering, security, privacy, infrastructure, and product leadership to define reference architectures, establish engineering standards, and influence roadmaps. You will mentor senior engineers, raise the bar on technical rigor, and guide critical architectural decisions and trade-offs. Your deep expertise will help evolve IAM to support modern paradigms (including zero-trust architectures, machine identities, and AI-enabled experiences) while meeting stringent compliance requirements and delivering measurable improvements in reliability, performance, and security for systems that impact millions of customers and associates.\nWhat You’ll Do\nSet the long-term technical vision and reference architecture for Walmart’s IAM platforms (authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, policy enforcement).\nLead architecture and design reviews for critical IAM services, ensuring secure-by-default, highly available, resilient, and scalable implementations.\nDrive modernization initiatives (e.g., zero-trust patterns, policy-as-code, fine-grained authorization, service-to-service identity) across the IAM ecosystem.\nPartner with Application teams, Security, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Product leaders to align platform strategy with business priorities, risk posture, and compliance needs.\nDefine and enforce engineering standards for reliability, performance, observability, incident response, and secure SDLC across IAM services.\nGuide technical decisions for global, multi-region deployments to meet latency, availability, and data residency requirements.\nIdentify systemic risks and architectural gaps; lead mitigation plans for vulnerabilities, abuse vectors, and operational bottlenecks.\nMentor and develop senior engineers and technical leaders; elevate engineering excellence through coaching, design guidance, and technical forums.\nInfluence and drive roadmaps across multiple teams, aligning dependencies and ensuring successful delivery of complex, cross-cutting initiatives.\nEstablish success metrics (security posture, availability, latency, adoption, developer experience) and drive continuous improvement through measurable outcomes.\nBuild, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide\nEnsures the maintenance, patching, operating, and monitoring of IAM systems.\nTroubleshoots and resolves system incidents, problems and changes, as required\nEngage and support application teams integrating with IAM, SSO, Active Directory and related modules\nSeeking and maintaining knowledge (cross/up skill) of current and upcoming identity security technologies.\nWhat You’ll bring\nDeep expertise in IAM concepts and systems: authentication, authorization (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC), federation (OIDC/OAuth2/SAML), MFA, session management, and identity governance.\nProven track record leading architecture for large-scale, mission-critical platforms with high availability, low latency, and strong security guarantees.\nStrong security fundamentals, including threat modeling, zero-trust principles, least privilege, secrets management, encryption, and secure-by-design practices.\nExperience designing distributed systems in cloud and hybrid environments, including multi-region resiliency, disaster recovery, and data residency considerations.\nDemonstrated ability to influence across organizations-driving alignment among engineering, product, security, and operations stakeholders.\nExpertise in platform engineering practices: APIs, developer experience, versioning, SLAs/SLOs, observability, and operational excellence.\nAbility to lead complex technical programs spanning multiple teams, with strong prioritization and execution discipline.\nStrong mentoring and technical leadership skills, with a history of raising the bar for senior/staff-level engineers.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences.\n(Preferred) Experience with modern authorization approaches (policy engines, fine-grained entitlements), machine identity/workload identity, and emerging identity needs for AI-driven systems.\nExperience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, and API documentation (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI), container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS), NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB, Cassandra, MongoDB)\nAbout Walmart Global Tech\nImagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.\nWe train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.\nFlexible Work\nWalmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.\nBenefits\nBeyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.\nBelonging\nWe aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.\nAt Walmart, our vision is \"everyone included.\" By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is-and feels-included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.\nMinimum Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.\nOption 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.\nPreferred Qualifications...\nOutlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.\nMaster’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. 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