Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise Data Warehouse (Remote) at Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
$120,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 2, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data warehouse infrastructure, including foundational data domains, semantic layers, and analytics-facing data products. The work is primarily hands-on backend data engineering — data modeling, pipeline development, performance tuning, and cost optimization — using cloud data warehouses, SQL, Python, and orchestration tools. The role also involves setting architectural standards and guiding less experienced engineers.
Senior level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,750 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 730–2,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
All skills appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' — the JD's only hard gates are age and US work authorization. No technology is listed under a required/minimum qualifications section, so every named tool is marked preferred.
The minimum years of work experience stated in the structured fields is 3 years (Minimum Years of Work Experience), while the Preferred Qualifications narrative asks for 5+ years in backend data engineering. Both are noted; 3 is used as the overall years minimum per the hard-gate rule.
BigQuery is 'strongly preferred' and AtScale is explicitly called out as 'preferred, but not required' — both remain preferred per section placement.
The title is 'Staff Data Engineer' but the role has 0 direct reports and the requirements support a Senior-level scope rather than a true cross-team Staff architect; seniority is assessed as Senior.
The SOC is a close call between 15-1243 (Database Architects — data modeling, EDW, semantic layers) and 15-1252 (Software Developers — CI/CD, Python, platform engineering). The dominant emphasis on enterprise data modeling, warehouse architecture, and semantic layer design tips it to 15-1243.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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