Software Engineer Senior Principal - Reliability Engineering (Remote)

The Home Depot

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

28 hours ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Reliability Engineering to design resilience into our store systems, payments, and COM platform. You will lead multiple engineering teams, drive cost-efficient cloud usage, and advocate best practices across the portfolio.

You will mentor engineers, influence technology roadmaps, and partner with 3rd party vendors to ensure interoperability within our tech landscape.

Qualifications

Experience with chaotic environments and resilience design.
Familiarity with error budgets and SRE practices.
Background in building reliable, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

Lead portfolio level Principal discussions to ensure alignment and knowledge sharing.
Architect and promote reusable code elements across teams and portfolios.
Develop POCs with new technologies and drive portfolio-wide adoption and cost optimization.
Mentor teams, escalate high-priority issues, and coordinate vendor engagements.

Skills

Chaos engineering

Error budgets

Reliability engineering

Cloud cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Position Purpose

We're seeking a Software Engineer Senior Principal in Reliability Engineering to be the strategic force behind our store systems, payments and COM platform's stability. This isn't about patching things; it's about fundamentally designing resilience into our core infrastructure. If you geek out on chaos engineering, error budgets, and building systems that heal themselves, this is the role for you.

The Software Engineer Sr. Principal is responsible for guiding software design and development across multiple engineering teams and principal software engineers. Sr. Principals will help accelerate delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and by communicating best practices within their assigned IT portfolios. They will be a key contact point across a large portfolio for sharing and engaging with principal software engineers to foster learning and adoption of new technologies. They will interface with our 3rd party vendors to ensure THD's technical needs are met and that we are driving interoperability within our existing technology landscape. The role will typically support 4-6 different development teams (contrasted with 2-3 for a Principal and 6-10 for a Distinguished Engineer) which will span a variety of functioning products and/or APIs. They will ensure that teams are making good use of resources, designing and refactoring systems to optimize cloud costs, and will be responsible for identifying opportunities to streamline processes and optimize existing codebases.

Key Responsibilities

50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
10% People - Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges; Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts; Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports; Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback; Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent
15% Strategy and Planning - Works with a Distinguished Engineer to define technology solutions (open source or vendor) teams should be exploring and/or leveraging; Works across local teams to unify strategy and alignment; Identifies and removes potential roadblocks & bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives; Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps within a given portfolio; Drives thought leadership and innovation within a given portfolio
25% Support and Enablement - Point of escalation for high-priority issues and outages as they arise; Fields questions from project, product, and support teams; Helps solve technology disputes across local teams; Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products; Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technology with local teams

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

This position reports to various individuals
This position has 4-6 direct reports

Travel Requirements

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

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.
Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
7 years of relevant work experience
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
Typically requires overnight travel less than 15% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

7-9 years of relevant work experience
One of the fields of expertise should include a programming language
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Mastery in assigned domains
Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains
5 years previous leadership experience

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