[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer REMOTE

­­­Position: Staff Software Engineer

Date posted: 2024-12-27

Industry: other

Employment type: Full Time

Experience: 6 to 10 year

Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree holder

Location: Atlanta, GA, United Arab Emirates, REMOTE

Company: The Home Depot

Description:

Hiring Staff Software Engineer (Remote)

Atlanta, GA

About the job

Req130966

Position Purpose

Orange Apron Media is The Home Depot’s premier retail media program. We empower brands and retailers with cutting-edge digital solutions that drive engagement, efficiency, and growth. As we continue to expand, we are seeking an ambitious and talented Staff Data Engineer to join our engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to work on innovative projects that shape the future of retail media!

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.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance software services that support both real-time and batch data retrieval and processing.
• Work within Google Cloud Platform to deliver highly available low latency solutions using Python, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and other products.
• Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to understand data requirements and deliver appropriate software solutions.
• Build SDKs, APIs for seamless integration across multiple tools and services.
• Develop monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues in data infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of data engineers, helping them grow their skills and advance their careers.
• Implement data security practices, including data encryption, access controls, and compliance with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).

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 legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6-10 years of relevant work experience
• Extensive experience working with database engines, and with optimizing file formats, database structure, and partitioning.
• Extensive experience working with Python
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
• Extensive experience working with Microservices architectures using products such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Spinnaker
• Experience with Infrastructure as code solutions, preferably Terraform
• Experience designing and/or developing following the Medallion data lake house architecture.
• Some familiarity in data engineering technologies and frameworks such as DBT, Dataform, or Databricks
• Extensive Experience writing SQL queries against a relational database, and principles of database design.
• Experience with technical communication including Release Notes and Instructional Documentation.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform or similar
• Experience designing and implementing microservice-based architectures
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience in implementing security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Experience in 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.