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[Remote] Software Engineer Manager - Cloud Platform Products (Agentic Workloads) (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Home Depot is hiring a Software Engineer Manager to lead teams delivering cloud platform products that enable agentic workloads for engineering and non-engineering users. The role owns product roadmaps and delivery, production readiness and reliability, and the growth and development of engineering talent.
Responsibilities
- Owns delivery of cloud platform products supporting agentic workloads, from roadmap and design through release and ongoing operation
- Collaborates with product management, UX, architecture, and consuming teams (both engineering and non-engineering) to create secure, reliable, scalable platform capabilities
- Partners with Platform Reliability Engineering to define SLOs, observability, alerting, runbooks, and on-call readiness for every product before and after launch
- Ensures quality, security, and change control standards are met; documents and reviews designs and releases
- Guides the design and build of services on Google Cloud and GKE, using infrastructure as code and CI/CD to deliver in small, safe increments
- Drives adoption of both platforms through clear documentation, self-service workflows, and guardrails tailored to each audience: paved paths for engineers and simple, governed experiences for non-technical users
- Establishes security, governance, and cost guardrails that let non-engineering teams build and run workloads on the platform safely
- Writes code or scripts as needed to automate infrastructure, monitoring, and testing; participates in design and code reviews
- Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
- Fields questions from engineers, product teams, and support teams consuming the platform
- Serves as a technical escalation point for the team and participates in incident response and post-incident reviews
- Monitors adoption and feedback channels and turns them into product improvements
- Provides application support for software running in production
- 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
- Manages team capacity, priorities, and workload across multiple products
- 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, including applying AI-assisted development to how the team works
- Participates in and contributes to communities of practice around modern software design and development
- Learns, through reading, tutorials, and hands-on experimentation, new technologies and best practices in cloud platforms, agentic AI, and platform engineering
- Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems
Skills
- 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 Go)
- Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes (GKE) in a production environment
- 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
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including experience leading or managing engineers
- Leadership experience and a strong technology mindset
- Mastery of Golang for building cloud-native services, APIs, and tooling
- Mastery of Google Cloud (e.g., GKE, IAM, networking, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage) and container orchestration with Kubernetes
- Mastery of infrastructure as code and GitOps practices (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Argo CD)
- Mastery of modern CI/CD and progressive delivery pipelines
- Experience building platforms or products that enable agentic and AI workloads, such as LLM gateways, agent runtimes, tool and MCP integration, model serving, or AI orchestration on cloud infrastructure
- Experience designing platforms, APIs, and self-service workflows with excellent documentation and user experience, including for non-technical users
- Proficient in observability practices: metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, and alerting (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Proficient in production support, incident management, and building reliability into products in partnership with SRE or reliability engineering teams
- Proficient in security fundamentals for cloud platforms, including identity, secrets management, and network policy
- Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
- Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
- Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
- Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
- Experience balancing workloads across teams and managing multiple products
- Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
- AI driven thinking, including applying AI and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering
- Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation
- Google Cloud Professional certifications
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