The Home DepotHiring

Software Engineer, Backend & Distributed Systems

  • Remote, United States
  • Mid-level
  • Posted 9 days ago
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Backend engineering role on a mixed-level team, building and running production services that customers and staff use; fully remote.

About the role

Work centres on distributed systems and event-driven services, with time split between shipping code, learning new approaches and planning with the team.

At a glance

Pay
Not stated in the posting
Remote scope
Remote, United States
Seniority
Mid-level
Skills
Java, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Apache Cassandra, BigQuery, SQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Git
Posted
26 Oct 2026
Last checked
3 Nov 2026

What you will do

  • Develop, test, deploy and maintain production software
  • Follow the team's engineering practices and suggest improvements
  • Take part in agile ceremonies and work with engineers of all levels
  • Help the team hit its goals when conditions get hard

What they look for

  • Legally allowed to work in the United States and at least eighteen
  • One to three years of relevant work experience
  • Coding in an object-oriented language, Java preferred
  • Event-driven design with message streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub in particular
  • NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra under high throughput
  • Querying large datasets with BigQuery or SQL

Nice to have

  • Observability and alerting built with Prometheus and Grafana
  • AI coding assistants used in daily development and review

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What experience is needed?

It is a mid-level role. The posting asks for: legally allowed to work in the United States and at least eighteen; one to three years of relevant work experience; coding in an object-oriented language, Java preferred. Skills it names include Java, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Apache Cassandra, BigQuery.

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