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Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

CompanyThe Home Depot
LocationNew Mexico, USA, Washington, USA, Kansas, USA, Pennsylvania, USA, North Dakota, USA, Oregon, USA, Delaware, USA, Iowa, USA, California, USA, Washington, DC, USA, Vermont, USA, Wyoming, USA, Texas, USA, Montana, USA, Jackson Township, NJ, USA, Florida, USA, Waterbury, CT, USA, Nevada, USA, South Carolina, USA, South Dakota, USA, Georgia, USA, Arizona, USA, Concord, NH, USA, Mississippi, USA, Tennessee, USA, Virginia, USA, Arkansas, USA, Minnesota, USA, Colorado, USA, Nebraska, USA, Rhode Island, USA, Utah, USA, Kentucky, USA, West Virginia, USA, New York, NY, USA, Maryland, USA, Hawaii, USA, Wisconsin, USA, Maine, USA, Massachusetts, USA, North Carolina, USA, Oklahoma, USA, Missouri, USA, Ohio, USA, Indiana, USA, Louisiana, USA, Alaska, USA, Michigan, USA, Illinois, USA, Alabama, USA, Idaho, USA
Salary$140000 – $240000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
  • Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java).
  • Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python).
  • Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js.
  • Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database.
  • Mastery of a version control systems (preferably Git).
  • Proficient in a front-end technology and framework such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, and JQuery.
  • 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 modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies.
  • Proficient in successful application of design patterns.
  • Proficient in test-driven development and effective unit test creation.
  • Proficient in a NoSQL database.
  • Proficient in query optimization and troubleshooting.
  • Proficient in effective data modeling within both SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • 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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 6-8 years of relevant work experience
  • No additional education
  • No additional years of experience
  • None
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