Software Engineer, Backend & Distributed Systems (REMOTE)

United States

Full-time

Remote

$50K/yr - $130K/yr

Entry Level

The Home Depot is hiring a Software Engineer to develop, test, deploy, and maintain software for products used by its customers and associates. The role also supports production applications and may involve configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and monitoring.

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Responsibilities

60% Delivers and Executes - Assists in developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software; Follows best practices established by the organization and participates in improvement conversations; Consistently helps the team achieve results, even under tough circumstances
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 - Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

Qualification

Required

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

Preferred

1–3 years of relevant work experience
Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing/streaming platforms (specifically Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
Experience with NoSQL database systems, particularly Apache Cassandra, in high-throughput environments
Experience querying, analyzing, and working with large datasets using BigQuery (BQ) or relational databases (SQL)
Hands-on experience building, managing, and maintaining observability, metrics, and alerting systems using Prometheus and Grafana
Experience or familiarity leveraging modern AI developer tools (e.g., Claude, LLM-based coding assistants) to augment development workflows, code reviews, and problem-solving
Experience in microservice-based architecture and cloud computing techniques (GCP preferred)
Experience in CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines
Experience in source code version control (e.g., Git)
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
Exposure to security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication
Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests