Software Engineer, Backend – Distributed Systems

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

📋 Description

• Assist in the creation and design of products tailored for Home Depot customers and associates.

• Develop, test, implement, and maintain software solutions.

• Adhere to organizational best practices and engage in discussions for improvement.

• Support the team in achieving outcomes even in challenging situations.

• Gain insights through successful and unsuccessful experiments while addressing new challenges.

• Pursue opportunities for personal and professional growth through both formal and informal development avenues.

• Establish partnerships and collaborate with others to accomplish shared goals.

• Work alongside team members in agile methodologies.

• Contribute to product setup, security, resilience, performance optimization, and monitoring in production.

• Report directly to a Software Engineer Manager or Senior Manager.

• Have no direct reports.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen years old.

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

• A Bachelor's degree or an equivalent qualification in a relevant field of study.

• At least 1 year of professional experience.

• Proficient in an object-oriented programming language, preferably Java.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queuing/streaming platforms, specifically Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

• Experience with NoSQL database systems, especially Apache Cassandra, in high-throughput settings.

• Proficient in querying, analyzing, and handling large datasets using BigQuery or relational databases (SQL).

• Practical experience in building, managing, and maintaining observability, metrics, and alerting systems using Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience or familiarity with modern AI development tools, including Claude and LLM-based coding assistants.

• Knowledge in microservice-based architecture and cloud computing techniques, preferably with GCP.

• Experience with CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines.

• Proficient in source code version control systems, such as Git.

• Familiarity with modern debugging and root cause analysis methods.

• Exposure to security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication.

• Experience in creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement.

• No travel required.

• Opportunities to enhance and develop technical and leadership skills.

• Access to both formal and informal development channels.

• Comfortable indoor working environment.