Sr. Principal Software Engineer (Remote)
About The Position
The Software Engineer Sr. Principal guides software design and development across multiple engineering teams and principal software engineers. The role accelerates delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and communication of best practices within assigned IT portfolios. It serves as a key contact across a large portfolio for sharing knowledge with principal software engineers and encouraging learning and adoption of new technologies. The role interfaces with third-party vendors to meet The Home Depot's technical needs and promote interoperability within the existing technology landscape. It typically supports 4–6 development teams spanning different products and/or APIs, ensures effective use of resources, guides system design and refactoring to optimize cloud costs, and identifies ways to streamline processes and improve existing codebases. The position provides portfolio-level technical leadership and support, including reusable foundational code, proofs of concept for new technologies, cloud resource optimization, coaching and development of direct reports, technology roadmap contributions, and escalation support for complex challenges and high-priority issues. It typically requires overnight travel, and is performed in a comfortable indoor setting with most time spent sitting and occasional opportunity to move about.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Expertise in at least two technologies used by The Home Depot IT.
- Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry.
- Experience in Agile/Lean development environments.
- At least 7 years of relevant work experience.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent in a field of study related to the job.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 15% of the time.
Nice To Haves
- 7–9 years of relevant work experience.
- Expertise in a programming language as one of the areas of expertise.
- Ability to understand complicated systems quickly.
- Mastery in assigned domains.
- Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains.
- The position description also lists 5 years of previous leadership experience as preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio-level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing.
- Create and architect foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio.
- Develop proofs of concept with new technologies and prepare portfolios for adoption.
- Track and monitor efficient use of cloud resources and drive cost-reduction opportunities and enhancements.
- Serve as an escalation point for teams facing extremely complex challenges.
- Attend and present at conferences and learn how to apply new technologies and concepts.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.
- Conduct annual and mid-year reviews, review individual development plans, and provide performance feedback.
- Attract, retain, develop, and motivate top talent.
- Work with a Distinguished Engineer to define technology solutions, including open-source or vendor solutions, for teams to explore or leverage.
- Work across local teams to unify strategy and alignment.
- Identify and remove potential roadblocks and bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives.
- Participate in and influence technology roadmaps within a portfolio.
- Drive thought leadership and innovation within a portfolio.
- Provide escalation support for high-priority issues and outages.
- Answer questions from project, product, and support teams.
- Help resolve technology disputes across local teams.
- Work with vendors to identify and implement feature enhancements in software products.
- Promote successful use of tooling and technology with local teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
