Software Engineer, Backend & Distributed Systems (REMOTE)

The Home Depot is hiring a Software Engineer to develop, test, deploy, and maintain software for products used by its customers and associates. The role also supports production applications and may involve configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and monitoring.

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

Requirements:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• 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
• 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