SOFTWARE ENGINEER PRINCIPAL, MACHINE LEARNING & E-COMMERCE (REMOTE)

$140,000 - $240,000/Yr

The Home Depot - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Atlanta, GA

Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers

About the position

The Software Engineer Principal will lead the technical vision and architecture for a high-traffic e-commerce website, focusing on designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable platforms in cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on leadership role requires a blend of technical expertise, innovation, and leadership to ensure exceptional performance and user experience while integrating cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with product team members 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.
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure proactive issue management.
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools for destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowerment.
• Identifies product enhancements to improve user experience.
• Implements fixes for unsecured code areas as they are discovered.
• Shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization.
• Creates foundational code elements for reuse across products.
• Defines Service Level Objectives to measure reliability in production.

Requirements

• Mastery of an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java).
• 10+ years of experience in software development and architecture, with at least 5 years leading e-commerce platforms.
• Expertise in cloud technologies, particularly GCP.
• Strong background in microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless technologies.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems capable of handling high traffic (10,000+ TPS).
• Experience with BigQuery, GraphQL, and ML integration for e-commerce applications.
• Strong knowledge of security, compliance, and data privacy in cloud-based e-commerce.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with other cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
• Experience developing or integrating chatbots and conversational AI into e-commerce platforms.
• Familiarity with SEO optimization and web performance metrics (LCP, FID, CLS).
• Knowledge of DORA metrics and experience improving developer productivity through tooling and automation.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $140,000.00 to $240,000.00.
• Opportunities for professional development and learning.
• Flexible working conditions.
• Health insurance coverage.