Senior Reliability Engineer | Automation & Observability

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Reliability Engineering to design, build, and operate automated monitoring, workload orchestration, and proactive reliability systems for critical retail and supply chain operations.

You will migrate legacy systems to scalable script-based platforms, establish centralized health dashboards, and streamline alerting pipelines using modern observability tools.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years in professional software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or automation.
• Strong scripting/programming: Python, Bash, Java, Go, or Groovy.
• Experience with API integrations and automating health dashboards.
• Hands-on with enterprise workload automation and job schedulers such as Rundeck, CA7, Maestro, AutoSys, or Control-M.

Responsibilities

• Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software with a focus on reliability and observability.
• Mentors junior engineers and contractors on automation scripting and scheduling practices.
• Leads modernization efforts to decommission legacy monitoring platforms in favor of script-driven automation.
• Collaborates with application teams to implement centralized health dashboards and alerting pipelines.

Skills

Python

Bash/Shell

Java

Go

Groovy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

No further education required

Tools

Rundeck

CA7

Maestro / HCL Workload Automation

AutoSys

Control-M

PagerDuty

Grafana

Splunk

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Reliability Engineering to design, build, and operate automated monitoring, workload orchestration, and proactive reliability systems for critical retail and supply chain operations.

You will migrate legacy systems to scalable script-based platforms, establish centralized health dashboards, and streamline alerting pipelines using modern observability tools.