AI-Driven Cybersecurity Software Engineer II

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Cybersecurity Software Engineer II to design and develop AI-powered security solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications, and data.

This role will leverage modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, and emerging AI frameworks to build secure, scalable applications that enhance cybersecurity capabilities and support business objectives across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development and engineering with 1–3 years for entry-level preference.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one OOP language (Java preferred).
• Experience with agentic AI systems and frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph or ADK.
• Experience exposing internal tools to AI agents via MCP servers/clients.
• Experience building RAG systems with embeddings, vector search and grounding.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation, guardrails, and prompt engineering.
• Cloud-native development on GCP (Vertex AI, Gemini), Azure or AWS equivalents.
• SQL and data handling across relational, NoSQL, and vector DBs.
• Microservices/APIs, CI/CD, DevOps, and Git.
• Security focus: authentication, data handling, and compliance; familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK.
• Observability, debugging, monitoring, and cost monitoring for LLM apps.
• Testing: unit, integration, performance, and automated tests.
• Frontend basics for internal tools (HTML/CSS/JS/TS).

Responsibilities

• 100% Deliver Execution & Problem Solving - integrate cybersecurity systems and mitigate risk; troubleshoot incidents.
• Design, build, maintain, monitor and secure defense capabilities and user access.
• Coordinate with managed security providers and investigate corrective actions.

Skills

Python

Java

LangChain

LangGraph

ADK

MCP

RAG systems

AI evaluation

Cloud platforms

SQL

Microservices

CI/CD

Git

Security frameworks

MITRE ATT&CK

Observability

Testing

Frontend basics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Secret Manager

Azure/AWS equivalent

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Cybersecurity Software Engineer II to design and develop AI-powered security solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications, and data.

This role will leverage modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, and emerging AI frameworks to build secure, scalable applications that enhance cybersecurity capabilities and support business objectives across the organization.