Software Engineer Manager - Platform Reliability Engineering (Remote) at Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
$140,000–$240,000from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-heavy engineering management role (roughly half the job) focused on leading a team responsible for reliability, performance, and security of a cloud platform. The technical work centers on SLO enforcement, incident management, chaos/resiliency testing, observability, and infrastructure automation. Suits an experienced SRE or platform engineering leader comfortable with both hands-on cloud infrastructure work and developing engineering talent.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 36,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 21,700–54,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). 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 (8)
The title is 'Software Engineer Manager' and the role spends 50% of its time on people management (hiring, coaching, performance reviews, team development), making 11-3021 the primary SOC. The hands-on coding and platform work (30%) is real but secondary; 15-1252 is noted as the runner-up.
Java is the only hard-gated technology — listed under Minimum Qualifications as 'Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)'. The parenthetical 'preferably' qualifies the specific language choice but the mastery of an OOP language is a firm gate; Java is named as the preferred option.
All cloud, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, SLO/SLI, chaos testing, observability, microservices, and ZTNA skills appear exclusively under Preferred Qualifications.
The degree requirement states 'bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree' with no explicit equivalent-experience substitution clause, so Bachelors is treated as the minimum formal requirement.
The 6–10 years figure appears under Preferred Qualifications; the hard minimum is 5 years (Minimum Years of Work Experience), used for the overall years minimum.
No metro was inferred per caller instruction; role is flagged fully remote with a national candidate pool.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Zero Trust Network Access.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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