Senior Principal Systems Engineer – Infrastructure and Data Platforms

🕒 October 6

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $170k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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The Home Depot

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1978

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🛒 Retail

💰 Debt Financing on 2007-07

Construction • Logistics • Retail

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, offering a wide range of building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and related services. The company operates both physical stores and an online platform, providing comprehensive solutions for DIY enthusiasts, professional contractors, and homeowners. The Home Depot is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, providing employment opportunities and benefits to a diverse workforce. Additionally, the company places a high emphasis on customer service and associate engagement to maintain its position as a trusted leader in the home improvement industry.

📋 Description

• Oversee the development, maintenance, and support of technical infrastructure including network, hardware, database, and system software components • Lead portfolio-level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing • Collaborate with leaders on build-versus-buy technology decisions • Develop proofs of concept with new technologies and support portfolio adoption • Monitor resource usage and drive cost-reduction opportunities and enhancements • Act as an escalation point for teams facing extremely complex challenges • Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to supported teams • Collaborate on annual and mid-year reviews and provide performance feedback • Attract, retain, develop, and motivate top talent • Work with Distinguished Engineers to define technology solutions and align team strategies • Identify and remove roadblocks and bottlenecks across cross-functional projects • Influence technology roadmaps and drive thought leadership and innovation • Escalate and help resolve high-priority issues and outages • Support project, product, and support teams with technology questions • Work with vendors to identify and implement software feature enhancements • Promote successful use of tooling and technology across local teams

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States • Minimum education: high school diploma and/or GED • Minimum of 9 years of work experience • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience with platform tools and technologies, including Kubernetes and CNCF-associated projects • Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry • One field of expertise should include a programming language or key knowledge in multiple infrastructure domains • Mastery in assigned domains • Ability to understand complicated systems quickly • Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains • Experience developing and evangelizing broad technology strategies • Preferred qualifications include 7–9 years of relevant work experience and 2–3+ years of previous leadership experience • Experience with SQL Server and Oracle is a plus • Experience using AI-assisted development practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement • Overnight travel typically limited to 5%–20% of the time

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