Senior Software Engineer - Native App Reliability (Remote)

Home Depot; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading home improvement retailer is looking for a Senior Native App Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of mobile applications. The role involves leveraging expertise in mobile development, SRE principles, and observability to proactively resolve issues and optimize user experience. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in iOS and Android development, as well as strong collaboration and technical skills.

Benefits

Health care benefits

401K

Paid time off

Success sharing bonus

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with iOS or Android development.
• Expertise in pipeline automation and alerting.
• Proficient in Native App/Play Store Release Management.

Responsibilities

• Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software.
• Collaborates with team members in agile processes.
• Helps grow junior engineers through guidance.

Skills

iOS Development

Android Development

Mobile Chaos Testing

Pipeline Automation

Infrastructure Automation

Monitoring Tools

Scripting Languages

System Reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

Golang

Python

Job description

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

Position Purpose:

The Senior Native App Reliability Engineer will be instrumental in ensuring reliability, availability, and performance of Native applications (in IOS & Android platforms). The Senior Native App Reliability Engineer will leverage expertise in mobile development, SRE principles, and observability to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize user experience, and drive a culture of reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
• 20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• 10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with iOS or Android development is highly encouraged
• Proficient in Native App/Play Store Release Management
• Expertise in pipeline automation and alerting, particularly for highly reliable software services
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and analytics tools such as Embrace, Quantum Metric, Firebase, and Github Actions
• Hands-on experience with Mobile Chaos Testing
• Experience developing and implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks, crashes, and other critical issues
• Extensive experience with common scripting and programming languages (BASH, Python, Golang, Typescript, Java, etc.) as well as data serialization and configuration DSLs (TCL, YAML, JSON, etc.)
• Deep experience with infrastructure automation tools including Terraform and Ansible
• Extensive experience managing Google Cloud Platform projects and services, covering infrastructure, compute, developer tools, security, and identity
• Skilled in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Comfortable with both Unix and Windows operating systems
• Experience implementing security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication
• Experience in creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests
• Proficiency in modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control systems
• Background in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
• Operational support experience with a strong focus on system reliability
• Ability to share knowledge effectively across engineering functions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience writing documentation, conducting peer tutelage, providing consultative services, and presenting technical solutions and training to both technical and non-technical audiences

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy

Benefits offered include health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off, and success sharing bonus. For a full list of the various benefits The Home Depot offers, visit https://careers.homedepot.com/our-benefits.

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay range for this position is between $80,000 - $180,000