Senior Software Engineer - Reliability Engineering (Remote)

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

Job summary

A leading company in consumer services is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Reliability Engineering. In this role, you will focus on enhancing the reliability, availability, and performance of systems and applications. You'll collaborate closely with a team, assist in tool selection, and mentor junior engineers. Ideal candidates will have strong technical knowledge and experience with automation tools.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Extensive experience managing Google Cloud Platform projects.

Responsibilities

• Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software.
• Collaborates in agile processes.
• Mentors junior engineers.

Skills

Infrastructure Automation

System Reliability

Performance Tuning

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Google Cloud Platform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Reliability Engineering (Remote)

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Position Purpose

The Senior Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems and applications. As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with a team of engineers to build and maintain reliable infrastructure and systems. You will also assist in tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.

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Position Purpose

The Senior Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems and applications. As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with a team of engineers to build and maintain reliable infrastructure and systems. You will also assist in tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.

Senior Reliability Engineers contribute to foundational infrastructure elements and system-related documentation. You will play a key role in the reliability team and are expected to mentor and support junior engineers.

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 infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Extensive experience managing Google Cloud Platform projects and services including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security and Identity
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Familiarity with both Unix and Windows operating systems
• Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Experience in creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control systems
• Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
• Operational support experience with a focus on system reliability
• Ability to share knowledge across engineering functions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience writing documentation, providing 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
  
  

Apply End Date: 07/22/2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Consumer Services

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