Software Engineer Manager - Cloud Platform Products (Agentic Workloads) (Remote) at Home Depot in Ga01, GA

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose As a Software Engineer Manager, you will lead teams that build cloud platform products enabling and supporting agentic workloads at The Home Depot. Your products serve a broad audience: engineering teams building, deploying, and running agentic workloads on our core platform, and non-engineering teams who need a secure, governed place to build and run their own applications and agentic solutions. You will be accountable for the delivery of these products, turning platform strategy into a roadmap, guiding your engineers through design, build, and release, and making sure every user, technical or not, can go from idea to running application with the least friction possible. Your teams will deliver experiences that meet users where they are, from simple guided deployment to command-line tooling and AI-assisted guidance, and that accelerate rapid prototyping and an AI-driven product development lifecycle. You will partner closely with Platform Reliability Engineering to build support, observability, and reliability into these products from the start, so they are ready for production, on-call, and scale. You will also grow the next generation of engineering talent and build a strong platform-engineering culture. Key Responsibilities 30% Delivery & Execution 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 10% Support & Enablement 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 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 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 10% Learning 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 b