Sr. Software Engineer

About this role

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting retail e-commerce platforms with high throughput and low latency requirements.
• Participate in incident triage and resolution as platform/system SMEs.
• Develop solutions for incident acceleration and toil reduction through automation and tool development, coordinating cross-functional war rooms to restore services within defined SLAs and minimize business impact.
• Responsible for independently developing and consistently redesigning/refactoring a product to adapt to customers and associates’ needs.
• Actively work to reduce operational toil by eliminating repetitive tasks and streamlining the SDLC, focusing on automated testing, deployment, and observability practices.
• 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.
• Responsible for monitoring system performance against established KPIs, regularly reviewing system reliability metrics, and testing/implementing changes to improve overall service health and reliability.
• Regularly re-assesses production system readiness through PRR refresh.
• Be involved in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring as well as mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide.
• Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
• Consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.
• Take a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Learn through successful and failed experiments...