Staff Software Engineer – AI PDLC

The Home Depot

Staff Software Engineer building and designing AI-powered products for Home Depot. Leading a team and supporting production applications in a collaborative environment.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $120,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in software development, testing, and deployment, with a strong focus on AI-assisted tools and security frameworks. Capable of mentoring engineers and fostering collaboration within agile teams to enhance software quality and performance.

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AI-Assisted Development ToolsSecurity FrameworksUnit TestingAgile CollaborationMentoring Engineers

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentTest Suite DevelopmentDebugging TechniquesRoot Cause AnalysisVersion Control SystemsHigh Availability DesignDisaster Recovery PlanningPerformance TestingFunctional TestingDestructive Testing

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationProblem SolvingCollaborationAdaptabilityMentorship

Tools & Technologies

GitHub CopilotClaude CodeAgile Methodologies

Industry Keywords

AI Behavior ShapingUser AuthorizationUser AuthenticationTechnical RoadmapsLegacy System Modernization

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide
Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production
Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful
Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable
Collaborates with other team members in agile processes
Fields questions from product and engineering teams
Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be eighteen years of age or older
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Experience working with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar coding agents) and the ability to evaluate output quality, not just generate it
Experience authoring or maintaining agent instruction layers, repo-level AI context files, or equivalent intent artifacts that shape AI behavior at the codebase level
Experience mentoring engineers on responsible AI tool usage, including recognizing the limits of AI-generated code
Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
Experience with version control system
Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring and modernizing legacy systems

Benefits

Comp & perks

No travel required
Comfortable indoor working conditions