Senior Principal Reliability Engineer – Platform Resilience

Home Depot; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is 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 role designs resilience into our core infrastructure, championing chaos engineering, error budgets, and systems that heal themselves.

You will guide design across multiple teams, mentor engineers, interface with vendors, and drive cost-aware cloud optimization across 4-6 development teams, aiming for reliable,

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field.
• Experience with Agile/Lean development environments.
• Experience in the retail industry business processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment and knowledge sharing.
• Architect foundational code elements reusable across a portfolio.
• Develop POCs with new technologies and drive portfolio adoption.
• Track and optimize cloud resource usage to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Skills

Multiple tech stacks

Agile/Lean

Leadership

Cloud resilience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Home Depot is 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 role designs resilience into our core infrastructure, championing chaos engineering, error budgets, and systems that heal themselves.

You will guide design across multiple teams, mentor engineers, interface with vendors, and drive cost-aware cloud optimization across 4-6 development teams, aiming for reliable,