Software Engineer Senior Principal - Reliability Engineering (Remote)
The Home DepotGEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01 · Remote · Lead / Staff / Principal
$170,000 – $280,000
Listed on The Home Depot’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This senior leadership role focuses on designing resilient, self-healing infrastructure across Home Depot's store systems and commerce platforms, working across multiple engineering teams to drive reliability and cost optimization. It suits experienced engineers who excel at chaos engineering and system design and want to mentor other principal engineers while solving platform-wide technical challenges.
Our summary, not The Home Depot’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- Expertise in at least two technologies used by Home Depot IT
- Experience with retail industry business processes
- Experience in Agile or Lean development
- 7 years of relevant software engineering work experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field
Nice to have
- 7–9 years of relevant work experience
- One area of expertise should include a programming language
- Ability to understand complex systems quickly
- Mastery in assigned domains
- Active participation in or leadership of professional groups
- 5 years of previous leadership experience