Staff Software Engineer

Home Depot • Atlanta, GA • 8h ago

Position Purpose:

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and designing a product that our customers and associates love. As a Staff 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, Staff Software Engineers will assist in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Staff Software Engineers contribute to foundational code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other product-related documentation.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a core player on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior Engineers.

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 a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances

10% Learns and Grows - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems

20% Plans and Aligns - Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

20% Supports and Enables - Fields questions from product and engineering teams; Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions; Notes gaps on the team and provides suggestions for changes to make the team more productive

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

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

This position typically 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:

3-5 years of relevant work experience

Extensive experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks, an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java), Relational or noSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns

Technology Stack Required(Full Stack):Languages & Frameworks: Java 17+ Spring Boot Node.js React.js Python Django GraphQL REST APIs Playwright CucumberData & Messaging: Cassandra BigQuery PostgreSQL Elasticsearch GCP Pub/Sub Cloud Functions AirflowCloud & Infrastructure: GCP GKE GCR Kubernetes Service MeshAI & GenAI: Gemini GitHub Copilot Anthropic Claude MCP Agentic Engineering AI-SDLCObservability & CI/CD: New Relic OpenTelemetry Grafana Adobe Analytics GitHub Actions Spinnaker Jenkins * SonarQube

Experience in effective data modeling with both Relational and NoSQL databases

Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication

Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests

Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques

Experience with version control system

Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security

Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring and modernizing legacy systems

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:

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

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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