Senior Software Engineer - Gemini Enterprise Platform (Remote)

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Position Purpose:

The Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for leading the deployment, integration, and reliability engineering for The Home Depot's Gemini Enterprise Platform on Google Cloud (GCP). As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting this critical production platform. In addition, you will be directly responsible for platform configuration, rigorous security and governance (enforcing least-privilege access, PII redaction, and VPCSC), system resilience and performance tuning (managing data freshness and latency SLOs), and production monitoring. This role also involves hardening RAG ingestion pipelines, governing the AI agent lifecycle, mentoring other engineers, and managing the technical relationship with external vendors, including Google, to ensure platform alignment and resolve escalations.

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:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in platform engineering, platform reliability, or a related backend role.
• Deep expertise in Google Cloud (GCP) services, including GKE (lifecycle, networking, security), IAM, VPC, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage.
• Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform for managing shared modules, state, and policy as code.
• Proven experience implementing and configuring GenAI data pipelines in Python or Go, integrating structured and unstructured data into vector stores, supporting RAG workflows, and ensuring model-to-data compliance through ACL and metadata alignment (e.g., Gemini ADK, Pinecone, or Vertex AI).
• Strong background in platform reliability and observability, with practical experience defining and monitoring service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) using tools like Cloud Logging/Monitoring/Trace.
• Proven experience with cloud security and governance, including VPC Service Controls (VPCSC), SIEM integration, and implementing least-privilege IAM.
• Experience with modern CI/CD practices (e.g., blue/green, canaries) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Demonstrated ability in structured problem-solving and root cause analysis for complex distributed systems.
• Excellent technical documentation skills, with experience writing runbooks and integration guides for other engineering teams.

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

Benefits offered include health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off, and success sharing bonus.  For a full list of the various benefits The Home Depot offers, visit https://careers.homedepot.com/our-benefits.

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