Senior Software Engineer - Platform Reliability

The Home Depot — United States · Posted ~5 hours ago

Senior Remote

Skills

site reliability engineering platform reliability cloud platforms automation incident management root cause analysis problem management SLOs postmortems destructive testing reliability engineering

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A remote senior engineering role focused on platform reliability and cloud operations. You will automate operational work, establish and enforce service-level objectives, lead incident response and root cause analysis, conduct rigorous testing, mentor engineers, and drive permanent solutions through structured problem management and postmortems.

Highlights

Remote senior engineering role focused on making enterprise cloud platforms resilient, secure, and highly available. Responsibilities include automation, incident leadership, root cause analysis, reliability initiatives, mentoring, SLOs, and eliminating recurring operational problems.

Description

Req191770 Position Purpose As a Senior Software Reliability Engineer on the Platform Reliability Engineering team, you will ensure the resilience, performance, and security of our enterprise Cloud Platform, working alongside partner RE and Enablement teams that support our critical Engineering Experience services. As a subject matter expert in Reliability Principles and Practices, you will deliver on RE initiatives, remove toil through automation, mentor junior engineers, lead incident triage, perform root cause analysis, and drive no-repeat resolutions of systemic problems through blameless postmortems and problem management. Your mission is to engineer reliability into our platforms through automation; rigorous change, incident, and problem management; and destructive testing, while establishing and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that let product teams build and run customer-facing workloads on highly available, paved-path solutions. Key Responsibilities 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions Direct Manager/Direct Reports This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. ManagerThis 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 4+ years of relevant work experience in a related engineering field (Systems, Software, Operational) or a reliability engineering domainExperience with ITIL processes and the support and maintenance of production systems, including Change, Incident, and Problem ManagementExperience leveraging AI tooling to compress MTTD, MTTM, and MTTRExperience with common scripting and programming languages (BASH, Python, Golang, TypeScript, Java) and data serialization and configuration DSLs (YAML, JSON, HCL)Experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform and AnsibleExperience managing Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent) projects and services, including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security, and Identity and Access ManagementExperience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetryStrong understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE) and modern microservice architecturesFamiliarity with Unix and Linux operating systemsExperience with security tooling (Wiz) and frameworksExperience designing and executing destructive, performance, and failure-scenario tests, including leading team drills that validate operational readinessExperience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniquesExperience with version control systemsStrong understanding of SLOs and core SRE principles and practicesStrong communication and collaboration skills, with experience producing operational status communications, real-time reporting to diverse stakeholders, documentation, and peer mentorshipMinimum 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 No additional education Minimum Years Of Work Experience 3 Preferred Years Of Work Experience No additional years of experience Minimum Leadership Experience None Preferred Leadership Experience None Certifications None Competencies Global PerspectiveManages AmbiguityNimble LearningSelf-DevelopmentCollaboratesCultivates InnovationSituational AdaptabilityCommunicates EffectivelyDrives ResultsInterpersonal Savvy