Junior Platform Engineer, Officer
State Street2 days ago
Base Salary
$70k - $119k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and maintain software and automation for cloud platform services.
- Build reusable components, libraries, templates, and engineering patterns with unit tests and documentation.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Enable AWS services across multi-tenant and vended account environments.
- Automate repeatable platform workflows and validate changes through automated testing and controlled deployments.
- Contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, metrics, dashboards, telemetry, testability, operability, and resilience.
- Investigate defects, performance issues, and reliability concerns using platform signals.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with AWS platform, application, security, architecture, and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with at least one general-purpose programming language; Python is preferred.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, debugging, automated testing, source control, and unit testing.
- Foundational knowledge of Linux, networking, and cloud computing concepts.
- Hands-on exposure to AWS services and cloud architecture concepts.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or another Infrastructure as Code technology.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
- Exposure to observability concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, or alerting.
- Familiarity with containers, APIs, distributed systems, graph-based problems, or data-processing concepts.
- Experience through internships, coursework, open-source contributions, labs, or personal engineering projects.
- An AWS foundational or associate-level certification is preferred.
- Strong analytical problem-solving, learning, communication, and distributed-team collaboration abilities.
Benefits
- Annual performance-based incentive compensation eligibility, excluding certain sales roles.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Medical, dental, vision, basic life, long-term disability, and optional insurance coverage.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program and access to certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.