Working at the world’s fourth largest retailer mixes the best of many worlds: cutting-edge technologies meet real business needs meets real customers who spend billions of dollars across our stores in North America.

We do offer Visa Sponsorship for qualified candidates.

What is it like to work at The Home Depot QuoteCenter?We were a startup once upon a time and much of our startup culture still exists: the agility of a small operation, the impact that comes with being a leader in our industry. Our developers use the latest open source technologies to build new products that facilitate 9-figure project sales at The Home Depot. We invest proactively in our people. We sponsor developer events, including .Net Fringe, NodePDX and PADNUG, and our developers headline workshops to teach Portland-area web developers how we use cutting-edge technology to solve real world problems. The mission of the QuoteCenter product team is to radically reimagine the shopping experience at Home Depot utilizing the latest web technologies and data tools.

What benefits does The Home Depot QuoteCenter provide?QuoteCenter employees are able to strike a great work/life balance. We provide flexible hours and generous paid vacation. We compensation very competitively and may provide a sign-on bonus and relocation for candidates moving to the Portland, Oregon area (within the US only). We also offer a game room, gym membership, bi-weekly catered lunches, team events, tuition assistance and full medical and dental coverage, paid vacation, 401k (matching after one year). Visit http://www.quotecenter.com to learn more about us.

What problem will you be solving in this role?

Define and implement application performance metrics to anticipate & avert application reliability incidents and facilitate improvements.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Manage reliability risks through metrics
  • Define SLAs and audit performance
  • Monitor systems and applications for waste
  • Automate tasks that are repetitive or prone to human error
  • Support CI/CD process maturity including prominent testing strategy
  • Define and manage incident response
  • Facilitate post-incident reviews
  • Strong work ethic and sense of ownership
  • Detailed understanding of systems, applications, and infrastructure
  • Insatiable curiosity and desire to solve difficult problems
  • Customer-service mindset
  • Effective troubleshooting skills
  • Cloud automation experience
  • History with distributed, high-traffic applications
  • No platform zealots allowed
  • Operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Systems scripting (Powershell, Bash) 
  • Cloud Platforms/Providers (Google Cloud, Rackspace)
  • Infrastructure deployment (Atlas, Terraform, Packer, Vault)
  • Monitoring solutions (New Relic, Elastic Beats)
  • Open to other things. This is neither exhaustive, nor exclusive of the technologies we use.
  • Exhibit influence derived from past leadership experience
  • Demonstrate work ethic that motivates and encourages others on their team
  • Mentor less-experienced members of their team
  • Prepare to become a lead if the opportunity presents itself
  • Self-direct: able to lead a pair
  • Bring depth - be very skilled in certain parts of the technology stack
  • Bring breadth - not isolated to a single segment of the technology stack
  • Problem Solving

Work collaboratively with business stakeholders, user experience designers, and your fellow engineers to create a solution. Build domain knowledge and understand the user & business problems you’re solving.

  • Work collaboratively with business stakeholders, user experience designers, and your fellow engineers to create a solution.
  • Build domain knowledge and understand the user & business problems you’re solving.
  • Quality Deliverables

Good software architecture - at QuoteCenter every engineer is an architect. You are responsible for creating systems that are appropriately maintainable, scalable, and extensible. Good software implementation - conform (and contribute) to team conventions and industry best practices. Work ethic and self-direction are keys to success on your team.

  • Good software architecture - at QuoteCenter every engineer is an architect. You are responsible for creating systems that are appropriately maintainable, scalable, and extensible.
  • Good software implementation - conform (and contribute) to team conventions and industry best practices.
  • Work ethic and self-direction are keys to success on your team.
  • Taking Ownership

When a problem comes to your attention, take care of it. If you’re too busy with something more important either assign it to someone else or set a reminder to come back to it later. Think through the business goals and desired outcomes of the projects you’re involved in and what could go wrong. If you see something that needs doing and feel you could do it, take it on and talk to your team leader \ manager about your interest in that area. Be organized in your work. We will equip you with a variety of tools that allow for quick, transparent organization so your colleagues can access your knowledge a day when you may not be at work.

  • When a problem comes to your attention, take care of it. If you’re too busy with something more important either assign it to someone else or set a reminder to come back to it later.
  • Think through the business goals and desired outcomes of the projects you’re involved in and what could go wrong.
  • If you see something that needs doing and feel you could do it, take it on and talk to your team leader \ manager about your interest in that area.
  • Be organized in your work. We will equip you with a variety of tools that allow for quick, transparent organization so your colleagues can access your knowledge a day when you may not be at work.
  • Always Learning

Be willing to learn whatever technologies, tools, or patterns necessary to solve a problem. Don’t avoid a problem because “someone else ‘owns’ the code” - learn the code, learn the domain, solve the problem.

  • Be willing to learn whatever technologies, tools, or patterns necessary to solve a problem.
  • Don’t avoid a problem because “someone else ‘owns’ the code” - learn the code, learn the domain, solve the problem.
  • Effective Communication

Write and speak clearly and concisely. Be prepared to explain your work, decisions, and ideas to your colleagues. We try to let decisions stand on their own merits, not on tradition or title. Be prepared to graciously challenge ideas that don’t seem right, no matter where they originate. We utilize Slack for much of the day-to-day, quick communication and notification needed across our cross-functional teams. Email is great, as well, though not as closely watched.

  • Write and speak clearly and concisely.
  • Be prepared to explain your work, decisions, and ideas to your colleagues. We try to let decisions stand on their own merits, not on tradition or title.
  • Be prepared to graciously challenge ideas that don’t seem right, no matter where they originate.
  • We utilize Slack for much of the day-to-day, quick communication and notification needed across our cross-functional teams. Email is great, as well, though not as closely watched.
  • Good Teammate

Have a sense of humor. Build relationships with your colleagues. Work out differences with your colleagues directly. Go to your manager if your unable to resolve it there. Actively work to disrupt backchannel and office politics. Look for ways to make the work environment better for everyone.

  • Have a sense of humor. Build relationships with your colleagues.
  • Work out differences with your colleagues directly. Go to your manager if your unable to resolve it there. Actively work to disrupt backchannel and office politics.
  • Look for ways to make the work environment better for everyone.