Senior Software Engineer – Site Reliability

The Home Depot

Senior Software Engineer ensuring the stability and performance of platforms at Home Depot. Collaborating to enhance product reliability and mentoring junior engineers in operational excellence.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $80,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drives the platform's stability, scalability, and performance.
Enhances product reliability by engineering automated solutions for complex infrastructure and operational challenges.
Champions application availability and efficiency through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and strategic improvements.
Leads post-mortems, creates automation to reduce operational toil, and partners with product owners and developers.
Participates in tool selection, assists with capacity planning, and builds the monitoring and alerting to meet business-defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
Mentors less experienced engineers to foster a culture of operational excellence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
GCP - Cloud Infrastructure
Observability - Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo
Litmus Chaos - Destructive Testing
K6 - Performance Testing
Terraform Enterprise - Infrastructure as Code
Github - SCM
CDK8S - Kubernetes Manifest as Code
GH Copilot - AI dev acceleration
SRE Practices - Production Readiness Review, Capacity Planning, Change Validation, Prod Support
3+ years of experience in software development.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

GCPGrafanaPrometheusLokiTempoLitmus ChaosK6Terraform EnterpriseGithubCDK8S

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationleadership