Lead Platform Automation Engineer
Fannie Mae1 day ago
Base Salary
$141k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support automated workflows using Temporal and other workflow orchestration technologies.
- Integrate AI-assisted development tools into platform engineering workflows for code generation, refactoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and test automation.
- Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions covering build volumes, success and failure rates, component versions, runtime impact, and operational metrics.
- Monitor and troubleshoot platform, workflow, integration, and application issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve reliability and operational efficiency.
- Partner with application development teams to identify automation opportunities, eliminate manual work, and improve developer experience.
- Lead technical discussions, knowledge-sharing sessions, code reviews, design reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support platform service reliability and availability through monitoring, troubleshooting, and collaboration with engineering and support teams.
- Coach and mentor team members.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience.
- Strong software development experience with Python, Java, Node.js, and modern frameworks, including designing, developing, testing, and supporting scalable production solutions.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS, including ECS, EKS, AWS Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, and Step Functions.
- Experience designing and developing workflow automation and orchestration solutions using Temporal or similar platforms.
- Experience designing, developing, and integrating REST APIs and API-based services.
- Experience with platform engineering, CI/CD, Git-based development, and automation practices.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and observability solutions.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, platform integrations, and production issues, including incident resolution and resiliency improvements.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate are desirable.
- Experience with Temporal, Backstage, GitLab, Terraform Enterprise, and Jira is desirable.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog, or Dynatrace is desirable.
- Experience with AI and agent engineering concepts such as tool calling, structured outputs, context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and Model Context Protocol is desirable.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and enterprise platform engineering environments is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement; most roles are expected to work onsite regularly, with cadence determined by the manager.
- Comprehensive health, life, voluntary lifestyle, and other benefits and perks supporting employees' physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.
- Eligibility to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities.
About Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae is a U.S. government‑sponsored enterprise that provides liquidity to housing finance by buying mortgages from lenders, packaging them into mortgage‑backed securities, and guaranteeing their credit risk. It serves banks, mortgage companies, and institutional investors rather than originating loans itself. Chartered in 1938 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the company has operated under Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship since 2008.