Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Home Depot is a home improvement retailer seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its store selling systems product team. The role is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting secure, reliable, scalable software throughout the product lifecycle, while creating reusable foundational code, defining service level objectives, and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
- Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
- Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production
- Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
- Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowerment
- Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users
- Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling
- Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization
- Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused many times by a product
- Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties
- Defines Service Level Objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work
- Fields questions from other product teams or support teams
- Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
- Provides application support for software running in production
- Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products
- Works with vendors and the open-source community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products
- Works with other product teams to create API specifications and contracts for shared data
- Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
- Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise
- Participates in and leads learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
- Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
- Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriate
Skills
- 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
- 6-8 years of relevant work experience
- Mastery of a modern programming language (preferably Java)
- Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Spring MVC and Quarkus
- Data engineering experience at scale
- Proficient in effective data modeling within both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies (Example: Event Driven Design "EDD")Mastery of a version control systems (preferably Git)
- Proficient in a Linux or Unix based environment
- Proficient in a CI/CD toolchain
- Proficient in destructive testing methodologies and tools
- Proficient in a cloud computing platform and the associated automation patterns they provide
- Proficient in production systems design including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
- Proficient in defensive coding practices and patterns for high-availability
- Proficient in successful application of design patterns
- Proficient in test-driven development and effective unit test creation
- Proficient in query optimization and troubleshooting
- Experience in working with 12-factor methodology and understanding its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to more junior team members
- Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful web services
- No additional education
- No additional years of experience
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- Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
- 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
- Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
- Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
- Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
- Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
- Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
- Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
- Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
- Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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