[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @The Home Depot

Role Description

As a Senior Software Reliability Engineer on the Platform Reliability Engineering team, you will ensure the resilience, performance, and security of our enterprise Cloud Platform, working alongside partner RE and Enablement teams that support our critical Engineering Experience services.

As a subject matter expert in Reliability Principles and Practices, you will:

• Deliver on RE initiatives
• Remove toil through automation
• Mentor junior engineers
• Lead incident triage
• Perform root cause analysis
• Drive no-repeat resolutions of systemic problems through blameless postmortems and problem management

Your mission is to engineer reliability into our platforms through automation; rigorous change, incident, and problem management; and destructive testing, while establishing and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that let product teams build and run customer-facing workloads on highly available, paved-path solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in a related engineering field (Systems, Software, Operational) or a reliability engineering domain
• Experience with ITIL processes and the support and maintenance of production systems, including Change, Incident, and Problem Management
• Experience leveraging AI tooling to compress MTTD, MTTM, and MTTR
• Experience with common scripting and programming languages (BASH, Python, Golang, TypeScript, Java) and data serialization and configuration DSLs (YAML, JSON, HCL)
• Experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Experience managing Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent) projects and services, including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security, and Identity and Access Management
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Strong understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE) and modern microservice architectures
• Familiarity with Unix and Linux operating systems
• Experience with security tooling (Wiz) and frameworks
• Experience designing and executing destructive, performance, and failure-scenario tests, including leading team drills that validate operational readiness
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control systems
• Strong understanding of SLOs and core SRE principles and practices
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience producing operational status communications, real-time reporting to diverse stakeholders, documentation, and peer mentorship

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Benefits

• No travel required
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about
• Located in a comfortable indoor area with infrequent unpleasant conditions

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job

Minimum Years of Work Experience

• 3 years

Competencies

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy

Salary Information

The pay range for this position is between $90,000.00 - $170,000.00 for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents.