Senior Software Engineer – Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead teams in systems and software engineering to deliver a stable, automated connectivity infrastructure that is easy to use for The Home Depot.

• Automate device configurations, processes, and systems for the Networking organization.

• Design, develop, and manage Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management platforms across physical, virtual, on-premises, and cloud-based load balancers and proxies.

• Oversee the complete engineering experience for application connections, including GUIs, CLIs, APIs, and the supporting infrastructure.

• Implement Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering principles to enhance reliability, developer experience, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

• Encourage innovation, growth, change management, and process enhancements.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, product teams, vendors, and technology leaders.

• Assist in planning and funding reviews while communicating both technical and business trade-offs.

• Negotiate to fill skilled engineering roles within product teams.

• Participate in strategic planning and assess emerging technologies for enterprise-wide adoption.

• Work alongside UX, engineering, and product management to develop secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions.

• Write custom code and scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and testing processes.

• Implement essential tools and platforms in collaboration with vendors and partners.

• Develop dashboards, logging, alerting, and proactive incident response systems.

• Contribute to destructive testing, automation, and tools that empower engineering practices.

• Lead review board meetings to promote operational excellence.

• Provide application support for production software and serve as a technical point of escalation.

• Lead, mentor, coach, attract, retain, and nurture Software Engineers, managers, and individual contributors.

• Conduct annual and mid-year performance reviews, guiding team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution.

• Promote collaboration, career development, modern software practices, and learning initiatives across product teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen years of age.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Expertise in an object-oriented programming language, ideally Java.

• 6–8 years of relevant experience, including leadership of engineering teams.

• Proven ability to attract, develop, and mentor both individual contributors and managers.

• Experience in leading through other leaders, establishing direction, balancing workloads, and ensuring accountability.

• Background in managing change, process enhancements, and fostering a sustainable team culture.

• Familiarity with strategic and financial planning encompassing headcount, capacity, allocations, labor, hardware, cloud, and budget considerations.

• Experience in translating enterprise objectives into team goals such as OKRs.

• Proficient in managing strategic vendor and managed-service relationships, including SOW and contract negotiations.

• Ability to communicate complex technical and business trade-offs effectively from engineers to executives.

• Strong focus on customer experience, utilizing feedback and data to minimize friction and encourage adoption.

• Knowledge of application networking, including Layer 4/7 traffic management, load balancers, proxies, and DNS.

• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and cloud platforms like Kubernetes, GCP, and Azure.

• Understanding of modern CI/CD practices.

• Experience implementing Platform Engineering/SRE practices, such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, MTTD, and MTTR.

• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and FinOps.

• Experience supporting a 24x7 retail operation.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field, or equivalent qualifications based on the stated educational requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work opportunities.

• Overnight travel typically required 5% to 20% of the time.

• Opportunities for leadership, mentoring, and coaching.

• Learning activities focused on modern software design and development methodologies.

• Engagement in communities of practice and exposure to professional development.