With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
As Manager, Reliability Engineering for Transportation and Delivery Fulfillment, you lead the team that runs and improves the supply chain systems that move freight to our stores and distribution centers and get product to our customers. Your team spans onshore and offshore engineers, including staff engineers, and you hold operational and engineering work to a single set of goals. You own these systems 24x7. When a major incident is declared, you are the escalation point: you open the call, direct the technical response, and tell business and executive stakeholders about the impact, the scope, and the expected recovery. Those updates go out on a cadence you publish in advance. You run both domains as one practice, with one on-call and escalation model, one problem review, and one prioritized reliability backlog. You map the Critical User Journeys (CUJs) the business depends on, then set and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for availability and performance against them. Problem management, automation, and applied AI are how you remove recurring operational work for good. You keep changes from causing incidents, and you deliver resilience testing and security remediation on the dates we commit to. You hire, develop, and recognize your engineers.
Key Responsibilities:
30% 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
Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
10% Support & Enablement:
Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Provides application support for software running in production
Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
50% 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)
10% Learning:
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems
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Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading combined software engineering and day-to-day operational work with accountability for application development, reliability, and operational excellence.
Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams, including onshore and offshore resources, across multiple application domains.
Experience owning 24x7 on-call, incident response, and escalation processes for business-critical systems, including driving post-incident reviews and corrective actions.
Experience establishing problem management practices focused on root cause analysis, recurring issue elimination, and continuous service improvement.
Experience implementing automation and AI-driven solutions to reduce manual operational effort, improve efficiency, and accelerate incident resolution.
Experience supporting supply chain, transportation, fulfillment, logistics, or customer delivery platforms in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impact, risk, and recovery plans.
Experience defining and managing Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and service performance metrics across complex application ecosystems.
Proven ability to recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering talent while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous learning.
Experience developing technology roadmaps, driving quarterly planning, and aligning engineering priorities with business objectives.
Experience managing engineering capacity, operational workload, cloud consumption, and technology budgets in a cost-conscious environment.
Experience overseeing modern CI/CD pipelines, release management processes, and change governance practices to support reliable software delivery.
Experience driving system resiliency, disaster recovery readiness, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-volume platforms.
Strong knowledge of observability platforms, including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, or Elastic.
Experience operating cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, including container platforms such as Kubernetes.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Experience supporting hybrid technology environments that include cloud services, on-premises platforms, vendor-supported applications, and relational databases.
Proficiency in at least one modern programming or scripting language such as Python, Java, Go, or Bash.
Experience partnering with software engineering, quality engineering, security, infrastructure, and business teams to improve application reliability and operational effectiveness.
Experience collaborating with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory and corporate policy requirements, including PCI-DSS and SOC 2.
Working knowledge of identity, access management, secrets management, credential lifecycle management, and security best practices in enterprise environments.
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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
The Home Depot is a major home improvement retailer that serves customers with a wide range of products and services for home improvement and repair projects. The company operates physical stores across the United States and supports its operations through a substantial technology and engineering organization. Their internal technology teams develop enterprise software solutions, data warehouses, and digital products to support business operations and customer service. The company maintains an HR Service Center that provides support to associates and managers, demonstrating its commitment to internal operations and employee support.
