Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Engineer- Order Up (Remote)

The Home Depot•GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

1d•$120,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer leads engineers in building and designing products for customers and associates, and works with a team whose members support one another’s technical and leadership growth. The role includes creating, deploying, and supporting production applications, as well as contributing to product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring. Staff Software Engineers also contribute reusable foundational code and product documentation, including architectural diagrams, and help develop the skills of junior engineers. The role develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software; collaborates with product and engineering teams; and supports agile product delivery. It also involves building test suites, addressing operational and technical challenges, guiding junior engineers, and identifying opportunities to improve team productivity. The position typically reports to a Software Engineer Manager or Senior Manager and has no direct reports.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
At least 3 years of work experience.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a field of study related to the job, or the knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completing such a degree program.
Experience with site reliability engineering or a related field.
Proficiency with cloud platforms and infrastructure as code.
Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks; an object-oriented programming language; relational or NoSQL databases; cloud computing techniques; CI/CD tools; and modern software design patterns.
Experience in monitoring and observability.
Experience with data modeling using relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience with security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication.
Experience creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests.
Experience with modern debugging and root-cause analysis techniques.
Experience with a version control system.
Experience designing systems for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, efficiency, and security.
Exposure to developing technical roadmaps, including work estimation, refactoring, and modernization of legacy systems.

Nice To Haves

Proficiency with GCP is preferred among cloud platforms.
Java is the preferred object-oriented programming language.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software with a clear understanding of the value it provides.
Take a broad, global perspective when approaching issues and consistently deliver results, including under challenging circumstances.
Develop functional, destructive, and other test suites to support successful, rapid deployment of code to production.
Seek opportunities to grow and learn through formal and informal development, including learning from successful and unsuccessful experiments.
Create better ways for the organization to succeed and communicate clearly with audiences with different needs.
Work with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer-ready, understandable, and testable.
Collaborate with team members in agile processes and adapt to changing situations and audiences.
Field questions from product and engineering teams.
Guide junior engineers on modern software development frameworks and lead technical discussions.
Identify team skill or process gaps and suggest changes to improve productivity.
Contribute to product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.
Create reusable foundational code and product-related documentation, including architectural diagrams.
Build and grow the skills of more junior engineers.