Principal Software Engineer, Store Systems

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Software Engineer Principal for store selling systems to drive design, development, and delivery of high quality software that our users love. The role emphasizes collaboration across product teams, vendors, and the open source community.

You will lead junior engineers, create reusable code and architecture diagrams, and set service level objectives while participating in production monitoring and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Mastery of Java and modern web frameworks (Spring MVC, Quarkus).
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL data modeling.
• Experience with microservices architecture and Git.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to deliver secure, scalable software.
• Document and ensure quality and change control.
• Write code/scripts to automate infrastructure and tests.
• Develop dashboards, logging, and alerting for production issues.
• Identify and implement cross-team technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Engage in learning activities and apply new technologies.

Skills

Java

Spring MVC

Quarkus

Data engineering

SQL/NoSQL modeling

Microservices

Git

CI/CD

Linux/Unix

RESTful services

TDD

Destructive testing

Cloud platform

Security

High Availability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Home Depot in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Software Engineer Principal for store selling systems to drive design, development, and delivery of high quality software that our users love. The role emphasizes collaboration across product teams, vendors, and the open source community.

You will lead junior engineers, create reusable code and architecture diagrams, and set service level objectives while participating in production monitoring and performance tuning.