The Home Depot
Req174487
Position Purpose
The Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability drives the platform's stability, scalability, and performance. This role enhances product reliability by engineering automated solutions for complex infrastructure and operational challenges. Key responsibilities include championing application availability and efficiency through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and strategic improvements. The engineer will lead post-mortems, create automation to reduce operational toil, and partner with product owners and developers to enable the deployment of reliable, high-performing services. This position participates in tool selection, assists with capacity planning, and builds the monitoring and alerting to meet business-defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Within a collaborative team, the role also involves mentoring less experienced engineers to foster a culture of operational excellence.
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 lens
20% 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 channels
20% 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 people
10% 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. Manager
This position has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements
Physical Requirements
Working Conditions
Minimum Qualifications
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications
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
Minimum Education
Preferred Education
Minimum Years Of Work Experience
Preferred Years Of Work Experience
Minimum Leadership Experience
Preferred Leadership Experience
Certifications
Competencies
Global Perspective
Manages Ambiguity
Nimble Learning
Self-Development
Collaborates
Cultivates Innovation
Situational Adaptability
Communicates Effectively
Drives Results
Interpersonal Savvy
Apply End Date: 06/19/2026
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