Job description
With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose
As a Software Engineer Manager, you will lead teams that build cloud platform products enabling and supporting agentic workloads at The Home Depot. Your products serve a broad audience: engineering teams building, deploying, and running agentic workloads on our core platform, and non-engineering teams who need a secure, governed place to build and run their own applications and agentic solutions. You will be accountable for the delivery of these products, turning platform strategy into a roadmap, guiding your engineers through design, build, and release, and making sure every user, technical or not, can go from idea to running application with the least friction possible. Your teams will deliver experiences that meet users where they are, from simple guided deployment to command-line tooling and AI-assisted guidance, and that accelerate rapid prototyping and an AI-driven product development lifecycle.
You will partner closely with Platform Reliability Engineering to build support, observability, and reliability into these products from the start, so they are ready for production, on-call, and scale. You will also grow the next generation of engineering talent and build a strong platform-engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities
30% Delivery & Execution
Owns delivery of cloud platform products supporting agentic workloads, from roadmap and design through release and ongoing operation
Collaborates with product management, UX, architecture, and consuming teams (both engineering and non-engineering) to create secure, reliable, scalable platform capabilities
Partners with Platform Reliability Engineering to define SLOs, observability, alerting, runbooks, and on-call readiness for every product before and after launch
Ensures quality, security, and change control standards are met; documents and reviews designs and releases
Guides the design and build of services on Google Cloud and GKE, using infrastructure as code and CI/CD to deliver in small, safe increments
Drives adoption of both platforms through clear documentation, self-service workflows, and guardrails tailored to each audience: paved paths for engineers and simple, governed experiences for non-technical users
Establishes security, governance, and cost guardrails that let non-engineering teams build and run workloads on the platform safely
Writes code or scripts as needed to automate infrastructure, monitoring, and testing; participates in design and code reviews
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
10% Support & Enablement
Fields questions from engineers, product teams, and support teams consuming the platform
Serves as a technical escalation point for the team and participates in incident response and post-incident reviews
Monitors adoption and feedback channels and turns them into product improvements
Provides application support for software running in production
50% People
Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
Manages team capacity, priorities, and workload across multiple products
Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices, including applying AI-assisted development to how the team works
Participates in and contributes to communities of practice around modern software design and development
10% Learning
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and hands-on experimentation, new technologies and best practices in cloud platforms, agentic AI, and platform engineering
Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems
Direct Manager / Direct Reports
2-5
Travel Requirements
Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
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
Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Go)
Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes (GKE) in a production environment
Preferred Qualifications
5-7 years of relevant work experience, including experience leading or managing engineers
Leadership experience and a strong technology mindset
Mastery of Golang for building cloud-native services, APIs, and tooling
Mastery of Google Cloud (e.g., GKE, IAM, networking, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage) and container orchestration with Kubernetes
Mastery of infrastructure as code and GitOps practices (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Argo CD)
Mastery of modern CI/CD and progressive delivery pipelines
Experience building platforms or products that enable agentic and AI workloads, such as LLM gateways, agent runtimes, tool and MCP integration, model serving, or AI orchestration on cloud infrastructure
Experience designing platforms, APIs, and self-service workflows with excellent documentation and user experience, including for non-technical users
Proficient in observability practices: metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, and alerting (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
Proficient in production support, incident management, and building reliability into products in partnership with SRE or reliability engineering teams
Proficient in security fundamentals for cloud platforms, including identity, secrets management, and network policy
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
Experience balancing workloads across teams and managing multiple products
Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
AI driven thinking, including applying AI and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering
Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation
Education
Minimum: 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: no additional education.
Years of Experience
Minimum: 5
Leadership Experience
5-7 years of relevant work experience, including experience leading or managing engineers
Certifications
None. (Google Cloud Professional certifications are a plus.)
Competencies
Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
The pay range for this position is between $140,000.00 - $240,000.00Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.