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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

• Lead systems and software engineering teams delivering stable, automated, easy-to-consume connectivity infrastructure for The Home Depot • Automate systems, processes, and device configurations for the Networking organization • Design, develop, and operate Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management platforms across physical, virtual, on-premises, and cloud load balancers and proxies • Own the end-to-end engineer experience for connecting applications, including GUIs, CLIs, APIs, and underlying infrastructure • Apply Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering practices to balance reliability, developer experience, operational toil, and cost efficiency • Drive innovation, growth, change management, and process improvement • Partner with stakeholders, product teams, vendors, and technology leaders • Support planning and funding reviews and communicate technical and business trade-offs • Negotiate staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams • Contribute to strategic plans and evaluate emerging technologies for enterprise adoption • Collaborate with UX, engineering, and product management to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions • Write custom code and scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases • Implement critical tooling and platforms with vendors and partners • Create dashboards, logging, alerting, and proactive incident responses • Contribute to destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment tools • Lead review board sessions and drive operational excellence • Provide application support for production software and act as a technical escalation point • Lead, mentor, coach, attract, retain, and develop Software Engineers, managers, and individual contributors • Conduct annual and mid-year reviews and guide team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution • Foster collaboration, career development, modern software practices, and learning activities across product teams

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 6–8 years of relevant experience, including leading engineering teams • Proficiency attracting, developing, and mentoring individual contributors and managers • Proficiency leading through other leaders, setting direction, balancing workloads, and driving accountability • Experience driving change management, process improvement, and sustainable team culture • Experience with strategic and financial planning across headcount, capacity, allocations, labor, hardware, cloud, and budget • Experience translating enterprise goals into team objectives such as OKRs • 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, including Layer 4/7 traffic management, load balancers, proxies, and DNS • Working knowledge of infrastructure automation, containerized and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, GCP, and Azure • Working knowledge of modern CI/CD • Experience applying Platform Engineering/SRE practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, MTTD, and MTTR • Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps • Proficiency supporting a 24x7 retail operation • Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a related field, or equivalent qualification through the stated education requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement • Overnight travel typically required 5% to 20% of the time • Leadership, mentoring, and coaching opportunities • Learning activities around modern software design and development practices • Communities of practice and professional development exposure