Position Purpose:

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for setting the technical strategy and leading the architecture for The Home Depot's Gemini Enterprise Platform on Google Cloud (GCP). This role owns the platform's data freshness, performance, security, and cost-efficiency at enterprise scale while enabling governed AI agent workflows. 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 this critical production platform.

In addition, you will lead product and tool selection, platform configuration, and define the standards for security (VPCSC, IAM, RAG hardening), system resilience (SLOs/SLIs), performance tuning, and production monitoring. Staff Software Engineers will author foundational architectural diagrams, governance policies (e.g., agent lifecycle, action approval), and patterns for data ingestion. As a core technical leader, you will manage the technical relationship with key vendors, including Google, to align roadmaps and influence platform direction, and you are expected to build and grow the skillsets of other 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 circumstances10% 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 problems20% 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 situations20% 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. ManagerThis 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:

8+ years of relevant work experience in platform engineering, platform reliability, or cloud architecture.Deep, expert-level knowledge of Google Cloud (GCP) platform services, especially GKE (at enterprise scale), IAM, VPC, and secure data services.Extensive experience designing and managing large-scale cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), especially Terraform (advanced modules, state management).Proven experience implementing and configuring GenAI data pipelines in Python or Go, integrating structured and unstructured data into vector stores, supporting RAG workflows, and ensuring model-to-data compliance through ACL and metadata alignment (e.g., Gemini ADK, Pinecone, or Vertex AI).Deep expertise in platform reliability and observability; experience setting and governing org-level service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs), and using tools like Cloud Logging/Monitoring and SIEM.Proven experience designing and implementing zero-trust security architectures, including VPC Service Controls (VPCSC), least-privilege IAM, and data-centric security (e.g., PII redaction, prompt-injection defense).Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance (e.g., latency, data freshness), and cost governance.Experience defining technical strategy and authoring roadmaps, RFCs, and architectural decision documents.Experience leading multi-team incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex distributed systems.Experience with modern CI/CD practices and change governance (e.g., blue/green, canaries) and expert-level skill with version control 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:

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

Benefits offered include health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off, and success sharing bonus.  For a full list of the various benefits The Home Depot offers, visit https://careers.homedepot.com/our-benefits.