Staff Software Engineer (Golang)

The Home Depot

70d • $125,000 - $240,000

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and designing a product that our customers and associates love. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Staff Software Engineers will assist in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring. Staff Software Engineers contribute to foundational code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other product-related documentation. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a core player on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior Engineers.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with leading diverse and multidisciplinary software engineering teams.
• Experience with quarterly planning via OKRs and estimation of timelines for software feature delivery.
• Experience with supporting production software platforms with broad scope of customer impact.
• Extensive experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks, a backend programming language (preferably GoLang), Relational or noSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns.
• Experience in effective data modeling with both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication.
• Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests.
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques.
• Experience with version control system, preferably Git.
• Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security.
• Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring and modernizing legacy systems.

Responsibilities

• Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide.
• Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens.
• Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
• Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production.
• Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
• Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Works with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable.
• Collaborates with other team members in agile processes.
• Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
• Fields questions from product and engineering teams.
• Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions.
• Notes gaps on the team and provides suggestions for changes to make the team more productive.

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is between $125,000 - $240,000.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees