The Sr. Software Engineer on the Network Automation & Traffic Management (NATM) team builds and improves the Go-based backend services that power Vantage and other traffic management platforms at The Home Depot. This work is conducted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and focuses on creating reliable, secure, and high-performance APIs that facilitate traffic movement between stores, data centers, and cloud systems.

In this role, you will design and ship backend features, enhance existing services, and help maintain the health of our production systems. You will also mentor other engineers and contribute to technical decisions around architecture, observability, security, and operations.

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 on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

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

3–6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.2+ years of hands‑on Go (Golang) experience building production services, APIs, or tooling.Strong experience building and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including one or more of:GKE or other container orchestrationCloud Run or GCEPub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, or similar managed servicesCloud Logging / Cloud Monitoring (or equivalent observability stack)Demonstrated experience designing and implementing RESTful or gRPC APIs and integrating with other backend services.Experience building cloud‑native, distributed systems with a focus on resilience, scalability, and performance (e.g., retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, caching, graceful degradation).Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Cloud Build, Jenkins, Argo/Spinnaker, or similar), including automated testing and deployments.Strong experience with unit, integration, and performance testing for backend services.Solid understanding of version control practices and workflows (Git preferred).Ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems using logs, metrics, and traces.Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to work effectively in a cross‑functional, platform‑oriented team and to mentor junior engineers.

​Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building or supporting networking/traffic management/service mesh platforms (e.g., Envoy, API Gateway, mTLS, service discovery, routing policies).Experience with security and identity patterns for services, such as OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT, SPIFFE/SPIRE, or similar frameworks for service‑to‑service authentication and authorization.Experience working with high‑availability, multi‑region systems and designing for SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.Experience contributing to or maintaining platforms used by other engineering teams (internal developer platforms, shared APIs, or self‑service tools).Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration tooling (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Kustomize).Prior experience in a platform / SRE / infrastructure team supporting other product teams is a plus.Experience with PCF migrations, domain management, or legacy proxy retirement is a plus but not required.

Minimum Education:

The knowledge, skills, and abilities are 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:

3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

None

Certifications:

None

Competencies:

Global PerspectiveManages AmbiguityNimble LearningSelf-DevelopmentCollaboratesCultivates InnovationSituational AdaptabilityCommunicates EffectivelyDrives ResultsInterpersonal Savvy