The Home Depot

Senior Manager Software Engineering - Cloud Engineering (Remote)

The Home Depot • $140K — $240K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Georgia, US
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-8 years of relevant experience, including engineering team leadership
  • Mastery of cloud platform engineering (GCP, Azure)
  • Expertise in cloud cost management (FinOps)
  • Proficient in modern deployment tools (CI/CD pipelines)
  • Skilled in designing developer-friendly paved-path platforms
  • Experience managing strategic vendor relationships and negotiations
  • Proficiency in communicating technical strategy to diverse audiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams developing cloud platforms and tooling for efficient product deployment
  • Collaborate with product teams to create scalable and secure solutions
  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies for enterprise adoption
  • Drive operational excellence to enhance internal customer satisfaction
  • Mentor and develop cloud engineering talent across the organization
  • Create dashboards and monitoring solutions to proactively address issues
  • Foster relationships with vendors to ensure optimal tooling availability

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Mentorship from experienced technology leaders
  • Access to modern cloud tools and platforms
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation
  • Participation in strategy and planning for enterprise cloud initiatives
Full Job Description
Position Purpose:

As the Senior Manager of Cloud Engineering, you will lead the teams that build and operate the platforms, tooling, and cost discipline that let enable every product team at The Home Depot to build, ship, and run in the cloud efficiently and safely. You will own a connected set of responsibilities: the paved-path platform foundations, services, and guardrails that teams build on; the deployment and delivery tooling that makes releases fast, safe, and low-friction; and the cost management and optimization practices that keep cloud spend efficient and sustainable as the business scales. You will champion a paved-path approach that makes the right way the easy way, reducing friction so teams can develop, deploy, and support their applications with less toil. You will partner with our most strategic cloud and tooling vendors to ensure the right capabilities are readily available across the Enterprise, and you will bring an experiment-driven, metrics-informed mindset - including modern AI and agentic workflows - to how the platform evolves. You will partner closely with Platform Reliability Engineering to balance reliability, developer experience, and cost, and you will grow the next generation of cloud engineering talent, leading teams focused on building these capabilities and sharing them across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:
  • 20% Strategy & Planning:
  • Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams
  • Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
  • Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
  • Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
  • Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams
  • 20% Delivery & Execution:
  • Collaborates and pairs with 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
  • Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
  • 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, and engineering empowerment
  • Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
  • Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
  • Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
  • 15% Support & Enablement:
  • Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
  • Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
  • Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
  • Provides application support for software running in production
  • Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
  • 45% People:
  • Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
  • Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
  • Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
  • Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
  • Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
  • Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
  • Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
  • Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems


Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
  • Typically reports to the Technology Director, Sr. Director or Vice President.


Travel Requirements:
  • Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.


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.
  • Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States


Preferred Qualifications:
  • 6-8 years of relevant work experience, including leading engineering teams
  • Mastery of cloud platform engineering on major providers (e.g., GCP, Azure) - compute, networking, storage, IAM, and core platform services
  • Mastery of cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) - driving spend visibility, optimization, and sustainable unit economics at scale
  • Mastery of modern deployment tooling and progressive delivery - CI/CD pipelines, small-batch releases, and fast, safe deployments (e.g., Spinnaker, TFE)
  • Mastery of designing paved-path platforms with an excellent developer experience - intuitive APIs, self-service workflows, and clear, consistent GUIs, CLIs, and documentation
  • Proficient in designing platform interaction surfaces (APIs, SDKs, portals) that minimize friction, steps, and support burden for the teams consuming them
  • Proficient in using customer feedback, adoption signals, and usage data to continuously improve the experience of building and deploying on the platform
  • Proficient in defining and tracking platform adoption and efficiency metrics across a large engineering population - from leading indicators (e.g., paved-path adoption, pipeline coverage) to outcome metrics (e.g., cost per transaction, deployment frequency)
  • Proficient in technical communication - strategy documents, architecture reviews, and executive-level updates
  • Capable of understanding complex technical and organizational systems quickly
  • Experience with delivery and developer-productivity frameworks (e.g., DORA, CSAT)
  • Experience applying AI and agentic workflows to accelerate platform and deployment engineering
  • Experience managing and growing individual contributors and managers in a professional setting
  • Experience managing strategic vendor relationships (cloud providers, tooling platforms), including negotiations
  • Experience translating high-level strategy into tactical execution
  • Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation


  • 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:
  • 6


Preferred Years of Work Experience:
  • No additional years of experience


Minimum Leadership Experience:
  • None


Preferred Leadership Experience:
  • None


Certifications:
  • None


Competencies:
  • Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
  • Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
  • Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
  • Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
  • Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
  • Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
  • Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
  • Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
  • Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
  • Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
  • Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
  • Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations


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 $140,000.00 - $240,000.00

About The Home Depot

The Home Depot is a home improvement retailing company that combines its physical stores with an online presence to provide customers with innovative products at great value. The company specializes in the fields of retail, home improvement, and customer service. The Home Depot was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Home Depot Careers

Join the vibrant team at The Home Depot, the largest home improvement retailer in the U.S., where your career can flourish in an environment ripe with opportunities for growth and innovation. As a market leader, The Home Depot offers a variety of job opportunities that allow professionals to thrive in a culture that values leadership, diversity, and professional development. Work You’ll Do At The Home Depot, you’ll be part of a team that’s committed to helping homeowners, builders, and do-it-yourselfers bring their visions to life. Our extensive range of job opportunities spans from store operations to supply chain management, from IT to marketing. No matter where you start, you’ll be doing work that matters, impacting our customers' lives and experiences. Transform Your Career Step into a role within The Home Depot and join a network of over 400,000 associates who are as passionate about building their careers as they are about helping our customers. Leadership at The Home Depot means continuous improvement, embracing diversity, and fostering a culture of inclusion and respect that makes us stronger. Innovate with Us Innovation isn’t just a buzzword at The Home Depot; it’s the backbone of how we do business. We are constantly seeking out new technologies and tools to improve every aspect of our operations, from logistics to customer service. Join us, and bring your unique perspective and skills to a team that’s setting the standard for excellence in the retail industry. Grow and Develop The Home Depot is committed to the growth and development of its associates through robust training programs, leadership workshops, and opportunities for advancement. Whether you’re looking for a part-time position or a full-time career, The Home Depot nurtures your professional growth every step of the way. Internship Programs Dive into the professional world through The Home Depot’s internship programs, which offer a dynamic environment to gain hands-on experience and develop critical skills in various business areas. Our internships provide a platform to connect with leaders and peers, enhancing your resume and preparing you for future employment. Benefits and Culture Choosing to start your career at The Home Depot means more than just securing a job. It means you gain access to unparalleled benefits that support your life and well-being, from health insurance to educational assistance. Our commitment to employees is reflected in our open, supportive culture where everyone’s voice is heard, and every team member’s contribution is valued. Join Our Team Ready to take the next step in your career? Explore the wide range of positions available at The Home Depot, where we’re hiring passionate, curious, and innovative team players. Search open positions that match your skills and interests on our Jobs page. Stay Connected Keep up to date with the latest career tips, company news, and industry insights—all from the people who work here. Subscribe to our Careers Blog and personalize your subscription to receive updates that align with your career interests and goals. At The Home Depot, we don’t just offer jobs—we offer careers that make a difference. Join us, and be a part of something bigger as we continue to invest in your future and our shared success.
Learn more about The Home Depot
Size
490,600 employees
Market Cap
$323 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Net Income
$12.8 billion
Founded
1978
5 Year Trend
+9.8%
Revenue
$132.1 billion
NASDAQ
HD
* Ladders Estimates

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