[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer Manager @The Home Depot

Role Description

The Systems Engineering Sr. Manager attracts, retains, and develops top talent and inspires blended teams of systems and software engineers to deliver a stable, automated, and easy-to-consume connectivity infrastructure for The Home Depot. The role leads two connected mandates:

• Automating the systems, processes, and device configurations that run the Networking organization.
• Designing, developing, and operating the Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management platforms that connect applications across physical, virtual, on-prem, and cloud-based load balancers and proxies.

The Sr. Manager owns the end-to-end engineer experience of connecting applications — the GUIs, CLIs, and APIs engineers use, and the infrastructure beneath them — with a focus on a simple, low-friction "paved road" that makes applications easier to develop, deploy, and support. Applying Platform and Site Reliability Engineering practices, the role balances reliability, developer experience, operational toil, and cost efficiency.

As a strategic leader, the Sr. Manager drives innovation and growth, leads managers and teams through change and process improvement, and partners with stakeholders, product teams, and vendors. The role supports planning and funding reviews and communicates complex technical and business trade-offs across all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java).

Requirements

• 6–8 years of relevant experience, including leading engineering teams.
• Proficiency attracting, developing, and mentoring individual contributors and managers, and building strong, diverse teams.
• Proficiency leading through other leaders — setting direction, balancing workloads, and driving accountability.
• Experience driving change management, process improvement, and a sustainable team culture.
• Experience with strategic and financial planning — headcount, capacity, allocations, and budget across labor, hardware, and cloud.
• Experience translating enterprise goals into team objectives (e.g., OKRs) and prioritizing for maximum impact.
• Proficiency managing strategic vendor and managed-service relationships, including SOW and contract negotiations.
• Proficiency communicating complex technical and business trade-offs from engineers to executives.
• Strong customer-experience orientation, using feedback and data to reduce friction and drive adoption.
• Working knowledge of application networking — Layer 4/7 traffic management, load balancers and proxies, and DNS — sufficient to set technical direction.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure automation, containerized and cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, GCP, Azure), and modern CI/CD.
• Experience applying Platform RE / SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, MTTD/MTTR) and cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
• Proficiency supporting a 24x7 retail operation.

Benefits

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about.
• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Company Description

The pay range for this position is between $80,000.00 - $220,000.00.