Software Engineer II - Reliability Engineering Tooling (Remote)

The Home Depot

United States

Remote

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 operations.

Focus areas include automating manual tasks, analyzing site health, and deploying with GCP, including AI agents to improve change hygiene and reduce incidents. You will work with engineers across experience levels to grow technically and contribute to production systems,

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a field related to the job.
2+ years of relevant work experience in engineering or reliability.
Experience with ITIL processes and production systems support.
Experience leveraging AI to increase productivity and velocity, including prompt engineering and building custom AI agents.
Proficiency in Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Bash.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with UX, engineering, and product management to deliver secure, reliable software solutions.
Create meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and automated responses to incidents.
Automate infrastructure, testing, and deployment across GCP with CI/CD tooling.
Own SOPs for deployment and operation of applications; ensure changes align with best practices and controls.

Skills

Golang

JavaScript/TypeScript

BASH

AI agent development

Prompt engineering

SRE principles

CI/CD concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Github Actions

Kubernetes

GKE

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Wiz

SQL

NoSQL

Google Cloud Platform

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: