Software Engineer Senior Principal - Reliability Engineering (Remote)
Company: Homedepot
Location: GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01 (Remote)
Salary: $170k - $280k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-08-24
About this role
With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
We're seeking a Software Engineer Senior Principal in Reliability Engineering to be the strategic force behind our store systems, payments and COM platform's stability. This isn't about patching things; it's about fundamentally designing resilience into our core infrastructure. If you geek out on chaos engineering, error budgets, and building systems that heal themselves, this is the role for you.
The Software Engineer Sr. Principal is responsible for guiding software design and development across multiple engineering teams and principal software engineers. Sr. Principals will help accelerate delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and by communicating best practices within their assigned IT portfolios. They will be a key contact point across a large portfolio for sharing and engaging with principal software engineers to foster learning and adoption of new technologies. They will interface with our 3rd party vendors to ensure THD's technical needs are met and that we are driving interoperability within our existing technology landscape. The role will typically support 4-6 different development teams (contrasted with 2-3 for a Principal and 6-10 for a Distinguished Engineer) which will span a variety of functioning products and/or APIs. They will ensure that teams are making good use of resources, designing and refactoring systems to optimize cloud costs, and will be responsible for identifying opportunities to streamline processes and optimize existing codebases.
Key Responsibilities:
- 50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient...