Software Engineer II - Reliability Engineering Tooling (Remote)

Home Depot

Georgia

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Reliability Engineering Tooling team. You will build internal tooling for Developers, SREs, and Operations, owning the full lifecycle from development to deployment in GCP, including AI agents to improve change hygiene and reduce incidents.

Collaborate with engineers at all levels, create dashboards, logging, and proactive responses to issues. Expect a mix of delivery, learning, and planning activities within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
2+ years of software engineering or reliability experience.
Experience with Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript, and scripting (BASH).
Familiarity with CI/CD, IaC, and cloud platforms (GCP).
Understanding of SRE concepts, incident management, and observability.

Responsibilities

Deliver secure, reliable, scalable software and automation tools.
Create dashboards, logging, alerts, and proactive responses to incidents.
Collaborate across UX, engineering, and product management in agile processes.

Skills

Golang

JavaScript/TypeScript

BASH

AI agents

CI/CD

Kubernetes

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Github Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

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

Position Purpose:

As a Software Engineer II on the Reliability Engineering Tooling team, you will build and own internal tooling that supports Developers, SREs, and Operations teams across the organization. You'll own the full lifecycle of what you build including development, testing, deployment, and operations; acting as an SRE for your own applications, with internal associates as your customers. Your work will focus on automating manual processes, assessing site health through meaningful data, and owning the SOPs that teams rely on to deploy and update applications in GCP, including the use of AI agents and skills to improve Change hygiene and reduce incidents. Alongside engineers at all experience levels, you'll grow your technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications.

Key Responsibilities:

60% Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions; Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
20% Learning - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems
20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This position typically repots 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:

1-3 years of relevant work experience in a related engineering field (Systems, Software, Operational) or a reliability engineering domain
Working knowledge of ITIL processes and the support and maintenance of production systems, including Change, Incident, and Problem Management
Experience leveraging AI to increase productivity and velocity, including prompt engineering and building custom AI agents and skills
Experience with programming languages (Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript, BASH)
Experience in writing queries in a relational or noSQL database
Experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD processes, and orchestration tools such as Terraform and Github Actions
Experience working in Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent) projects and services
Understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE) and modern microservice architectures
Experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
Exposure to security tooling (Wiz) and frameworks
Experience executing destructive, performance, and failure-scenario tests, including participating in team drills that validate operational readiness
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
Experience with version control systems
Understanding of SLOs and core SRE principles and practices
Communication and collaboration skills, with experience producing operational status communications, real-time reporting to stakeholders, and documentation

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: