Senior Principal Software Engineer – Reliability Engineering

🕒 August 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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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

• Guide software design and development across multiple engineering teams and principal software engineers • Accelerate delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and communication of best practices • Interface with third-party vendors to meet technical needs and drive interoperability • Support 4–6 development teams spanning products and APIs • Ensure effective resource usage and optimize systems and codebases for cloud costs • Lead portfolio-level Principal meetings for alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing • Create and architect reusable foundational code elements • Develop proofs of concept with new technologies and support portfolio adoption • Track cloud resource usage and drive cost reduction opportunities • Act as an escalation point for complex challenges, high-priority issues, and outages • Present at and attend conferences and apply new technologies and concepts • Provide leadership, mentoring, coaching, performance reviews, and feedback to direct reports • Define technology solutions and contribute to technology roadmaps • Remove roadblocks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives • Drive thought leadership, innovation, and successful adoption of tooling and technology

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States • Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT • Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry • Experience in Agile/Lean development environments • 7 years of relevant work experience • Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a related field • One field of expertise should include a programming language • Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly • Mastery in assigned domains • Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains • 5 years previous leadership experience • Typically requires overnight travel less than 15% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement • Overnight travel typically 5% to 20% of the time • Frequent opportunity to move about during work • Comfortable indoor working conditions