Position Purpose:

The Technology Insights team gives Home Depot engineering leadership visibility into how the organization builds software — delivery velocity, code quality, deployment health, and AI-assisted development adoption — through a portfolio of internal platforms and integrations spanning a variety of internal tooling and SaaS products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the data pipelines, backend services, and integrations that turn raw engineering signals into trusted, actionable metrics for engineering leaders across the company. You'll work across the full stack — from cloud infrastructure and data modeling to APIs and the automation that keeps operational records accurate — and adopt AI-native engineering practices in how we build, not just what we build.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience
• Experience building and operating production services on Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery
• Familiarity with engineering metrics and DORA-style measurement (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate) and a healthy skepticism toward vanity metrics
• Proficiency in Go, React, and TypeScript — our backend services are primarily Go, with React/TypeScript front ends for internal dashboards and tools
• Prompt engineering experience and exposure to building or operating LLM-backed agents or tools, including integrating them with developer-tool APIs to extract and reconcile data across systems of record
• Comfort working in a small platform team supporting many internal stakeholders — able to triage ambiguous requests, push back on scope, and ship incrementally rather than boiling the ocean
• Strong data instincts: comfortable writing and reasoning about SQL against BigQuery datasets, and translating messy operational data into something a director or VP can act on
• Prior experience in a role that sits between a platform team and its internal customers — i.e., you've had to explain why a metric means what it says, not just compute it

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:

• 3-5 years

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