Software Engineer Manager - Cloud Platform Products (Agentic Workloads) (Remote)

The Home Depot•GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

8d•$140,000 - $240,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Software Engineer Manager, you will lead teams that build cloud platform products enabling and supporting agentic workloads at The Home Depot. Your products serve a broad audience: engineering teams building, deploying, and running agentic workloads on our core platform, and non-engineering teams who need a secure, governed place to build and run their own applications and agentic solutions. You will be accountable for the delivery of these products, turning platform strategy into a roadmap, guiding your engineers through design, build, and release, and making sure every user, technical or not, can go from idea to running application with the least friction possible. Your teams will deliver experiences that meet users where they are, from simple guided deployment to command-line tooling and AI-assisted guidance, and that accelerate rapid prototyping and an AI-driven product development lifecycle. You will partner closely with Platform Reliability Engineering to build support, observability, and reliability into these products from the start, so they are ready for production, on-call, and scale. You will also grow the next generation of engineering talent and build a strong platform-engineering culture.

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 Go)
Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes (GKE) in a production environment
5 years of relevant work experience
Mastery of Golang for building cloud-native services, APIs, and tooling
Mastery of Google Cloud (e.g., GKE, IAM, networking, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage) and container orchestration with Kubernetes
Mastery of infrastructure as code and GitOps practices (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Argo CD)
Mastery of modern CI/CD and progressive delivery pipelines
Proficient in observability practices: metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, and alerting (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
Proficient in production support, incident management, and building reliability into products in partnership with SRE or reliability engineering teams
Proficient in security fundamentals for cloud platforms, including identity, secrets management, and network policy
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
Experience balancing workloads across teams and managing multiple products
Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
AI driven thinking, including applying AI and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering
Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation
Bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Nice To Haves

5-7 years of relevant work experience, including experience leading or managing engineers
Leadership experience and a strong technology mindset
Experience building platforms or products that enable agentic and AI workloads, such as LLM gateways, agent runtimes, tool and MCP integration, model serving, or AI orchestration on cloud infrastructure
Experience designing platforms, APIs, and self-service workflows with excellent documentation and user experience, including for non-technical users
Google Cloud Professional certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Owns delivery of cloud platform products supporting agentic workloads, from roadmap and design through release and ongoing operation
Collaborates with product management, UX, architecture, and consuming teams (both engineering and non-engineering) to create secure, reliable, scalable platform capabilities
Partners with Platform Reliability Engineering to define SLOs, observability, alerting, runbooks, and on-call readiness for every product before and after launch
Ensures quality, security, and change control standards are met; documents and reviews designs and releases
Guides the design and build of services on Google Cloud and GKE, using infrastructure as code and CI/CD to deliver in small, safe increments
Drives adoption of both platforms through clear documentation, self-service workflows, and guardrails tailored to each audience: paved paths for engineers and simple, governed experiences for non-technical users
Establishes security, governance, and cost guardrails that let non-engineering teams build and run workloads on the platform safely
Writes code or scripts as needed to automate infrastructure, monitoring, and testing; participates in design and code reviews
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
Fields questions from engineers, product teams, and support teams consuming the platform
Serves as a technical escalation point for the team and participates in incident response and post-incident reviews
Monitors adoption and feedback channels and turns them into product improvements
Provides application support for software running in production
Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
Manages team capacity, priorities, and workload across multiple products
Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices, including applying AI-assisted development to how the team works
Participates in and contributes to communities of practice around modern software design and development
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and hands-on experimentation, new technologies and best practices in cloud platforms, agentic AI, and platform engineering
Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems