Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineering - Golang/GCP (Remote)

The Home Depot•GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

4d•$90,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating the enterprise cloud platform that powers The Home Depot’s internal developer experience. Working within the Tinyhome platform team, this engineer develops and maintains Go-based microservices, drives cloud infrastructure automation, and owns the reliability and security posture of platform APIs and tooling used by hundreds of engineers across the enterprise. This role requires deep experience in backend service development, GCP-native infrastructure, and a strong bias for automation, observability, and secure-by-default engineering practices.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Languages: Go (primary); Python for scripting
Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Platform — GKE, Cloud Spanner, Google Secret Manager (GSM), Cloud Pub/Sub, IAM, Google Service Accounts
CI/CD & Developer Platform: GitHub, GitHub Actions
Security Tooling: Wiz, SonarQube, Corroborator (build attestation / SLSA)
Data Stores: Google Cloud Spanner, Redis, AlloyDB
3-5 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and/or cloud platform engineering.
Proficiency in Go or equivalent compiled, statically typed language with a clear willingness to work in Go day-to-day.
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services, particularly GKE, IAM, and managed data services.
Demonstrated ability to design, build, and operate production microservices in a cloud-native environment.
Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills — able to trace issues across distributed service boundaries and produce clear root cause analyses.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
Comfortable managing Kubernetes deployments across multiple environments (dev / NP / prod).
Experience with HashiCorp Vault Enterprise and/or secrets migration patterns (VSO → ESO → GSM).
Familiarity with API gateway or service mesh technologies (Envoy, Istio, or proprietary equivalents).
Experience with Protocol Buffers and Buf tooling for API schema management.
Background in internal developer platform or developer experience (DX) engineering.
Exposure to Tailscale or similar zero-trust networking solutions.
Familiarity with SLSA supply chain practices, build attestation, or software composition analysis.
Google Cloud Professional certification (Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, or equivalent).
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.
3 years of work experience.
No leadership experience required.

Nice To Haves

No additional education preferred.
No additional years of experience preferred.
No leadership experience preferred.
No certifications required.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain production-grade Go microservices — including APIs, aggregation services, pub/sub consumers, caching layers, and data services backed by Google Cloud Spanner and Redis.
Contribute to platform APIs (routing, policy, identity, secret management) that serve internal developer-facing surfaces.
Write, review, and ship production code via GitHub pull requests with a focus on correctness, testability, and maintainability.
Author and maintain Protocol Buffer definitions using Buf tooling; ensure backward-compatible API evolution.
Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service compatibility issues; produce detailed root cause analyses and post-mortems.
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for GCP resources including GKE clusters, IAM, networking, and managed services.
Own secrets management lifecycle — including migration of workloads from HashiCorp Vault to Google Secret Manager via External Secrets Operator (ESO).
Develop and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines following secure CI/CD standards (Secure Flow, Wiz scanning, SonarQube, build attestation).
Manage Kubernetes workloads and manifests across PR, NP, and production environments on GKE.
Operate and improve internal deployment automation leveraging the Galaxy developer platform, including ServiceNow change request integration.
Own production deployments end-to-end: generate change requests, monitor rollouts, validate traffic cutover, and complete post-deployment verification.
Troubleshoot production incidents across the platform stack — from GKE pod failures to API gateway timeouts to secrets rotation issues.
Remediate CVEs and security violations surfaced by Wiz and SonarQube as part of the standard delivery cycle.
Proactively identify and address technical debt, dependency drift, and stale configurations.
Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver solutions that reduce developer toil.
Participate in code reviews and maintain high engineering standards across team repositories.
Author and maintain internal documentation, onboarding guides, and AI-assisted development orientation files.
Engage in team standups, sprint ceremonies, and cross-team architecture discussions.