Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineering - Golang/GCP

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Position Purpose:

The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating the enterprise cloud platform that powers The Home Depot’s internal developer experience. Working within the Tinyhome platform team, this engineer develops and maintains Go-based microservices, drives cloud infrastructure automation, and owns the reliability and security posture of platform APIs and tooling used by hundreds of engineers across the enterprise. This role requires deep experience in backend service development, GCP-native infrastructure, and a strong bias for automation, observability, and secure-by-default engineering practices.

Backend Service Development (35%)

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Go microservices — including APIs, aggregation services, pub/sub consumers, caching layers, and data services backed by Google Cloud Spanner and Redis.
• Contribute to platform APIs (routing, policy, identity, secret management) that serve internal developer-facing surfaces.
• Write, review, and ship production code via GitHub pull requests with a focus on correctness, testability, and maintainability.
• Author and maintain Protocol Buffer definitions using Buf tooling; ensure backward-compatible API evolution.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service compatibility issues; produce detailed root cause analyses and post-mortems.

Infrastructure & Platform Automation (30%)

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for GCP resources including GKE clusters, IAM, networking, and managed services.
• Own secrets management lifecycle — including migration of workloads from HashiCorp Vault to Google Secret Manager via External Secrets Operator (ESO).
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines following secure CI/CD standards (Secure Flow, Wiz scanning, SonarQube, build attestation).
• Manage Kubernetes workloads and manifests across PR, NP, and production environments on GKE.
• Operate and improve internal deployment automation leveraging the Galaxy developer platform, including ServiceNow change request integration.

Reliability, Security & Operations (20%)

• Own production deployments end-to-end: generate change requests, monitor rollouts, validate traffic cutover, and complete post-deployment verification.
• Troubleshoot production incidents across the platform stack — from GKE pod failures to API gateway timeouts to secrets rotation issues.
• Remediate CVEs and security violations surfaced by Wiz and SonarQube as part of the standard delivery cycle.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, dependency drift, and stale configurations.

Collaboration & Documentation (15%)

• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver solutions that reduce developer toil.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain high engineering standards across team repositories.
• Author and maintain internal documentation, onboarding guides, and AI-assisted development orientation files.
• Engage in team standups, sprint ceremonies, and cross-team architecture discussions.

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 lens
• 20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• 20% 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 people
• 10% 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 Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This 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:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Tech Stack:

• Languages: Go (primary); Python for scripting

• Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Platform — GKE, Cloud Spanner, Google Secret Manager (GSM), Cloud Pub/Sub, IAM, Google Service Accounts

• CI/CD & Developer Platform: GitHub, GitHub Actions

• Security Tooling: Wiz, SonarQube, Corroborator (build attestation / SLSA)

• Data Stores: Google Cloud Spanner, Redis, AlloyDB

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend services and/or cloud platform engineering.
• Proficiency in Go or equivalent compiled, statically typed language with a clear willingness to work in Go day-to-day.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services, particularly GKE, IAM, and managed data services.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and operate production microservices in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills — able to trace issues across distributed service boundaries and produce clear root cause analyses.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Comfortable managing Kubernetes deployments across multiple environments (dev / NP / prod).
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault Enterprise and/or secrets migration patterns (VSO → ESO → GSM).
• Familiarity with API gateway or service mesh technologies (Envoy, Istio, or proprietary equivalents).
• Experience with Protocol Buffers and Buf tooling for API schema management.
• Background in internal developer platform or developer experience (DX) engineering.
• Exposure to Tailscale or similar zero-trust networking solutions.
• Familiarity with SLSA supply chain practices, build attestation, or software composition analysis.
• Google Cloud Professional certification (Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, or equivalent).

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 Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy

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 $90,000.00 - $170,000.00

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