Software Engineer, Backend & Distributed Systems (REMOTE)

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineer is responsible for assisting in developing and designing a product that Home Depot customers and associates will love. As a Software Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Software Engineers may be involved in product configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Key Responsibilities:

• 60% Delivers and Executes - Assists in developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software; Follows best practices established by the organization and participates in improvement conversations; Consistently helps the team achieve results, even under tough circumstances
• 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 - Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This 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:

• 1–3 years of relevant work experience
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing/streaming platforms (specifically Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
• Experience with NoSQL database systems, particularly Apache Cassandra, in high-throughput environments
• Experience querying, analyzing, and working with large datasets using BigQuery (BQ) or relational databases (SQL)
• Hands-on experience building, managing, and maintaining observability, metrics, and alerting systems using Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience or familiarity leveraging modern AI developer tools (e.g., Claude, LLM-based coding assistants) to augment development workflows, code reviews, and problem-solving
• Experience in microservice-based architecture and cloud computing techniques (GCP preferred)
• Experience in CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines
• Experience in source code version control (e.g., Git)
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Exposure to security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication
• Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests

Minimum 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:

• 1

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy

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