Staff Reliability Engineer - Build Resilient Systems

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot in Atlanta seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team building customer- and associate-focused software. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive production systems from design through deployment, while collaborating with product teams and other stakeholders.

You will contribute to reusable code, write tests, monitor performance, and help with security and resilience. The role emphasizes leadership, code quality, and practical delivery across the stack,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of site reliability engineering or related field preferred.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience with front-end tech and databases, plus CI/CD and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead team to deliver, test, deploy, and maintain software with clear value.
• Collaborate with product teams to make user stories developer-ready and testable.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Support and enable the team with modern development practices and tooling.

Skills

Site reliability

Cloud platforms

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

CI/CD

Monitoring

Root cause analysis

Security frameworks

Testing (unit/functional)

Version control

Architecture design

Data modeling

High availability

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

The Home Depot in Atlanta seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team building customer- and associate-focused software. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive production systems from design through deployment, while collaborating with product teams and other stakeholders.

You will contribute to reusable code, write tests, monitor performance, and help with security and resilience. The role emphasizes leadership, code quality, and practical delivery across the stack,