Senior Software Development Engineer

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview

Are you an engineer who loves to deliver immediate results to customers on big creative infrastructure challenges? This might be the right role for you! Here at Freddie Mac we do meaningful work to build a better housing finance system. As a developer here you will help create the next generation of infrastructure solutions while refining existing infrastructure DevOps solutions.

Our Impact

As the Infrastructure Engineering organization, we are growing a governance and support team that delivers everything from hybrid cloud service solutions to quick-turn software automation to make sure the infrastructure is secure, safe, and performant at the right price daily.

We deliver through delightful customer experience delivery, securing by design solutions, risk management, lowering costs, hybrid cloud architectures, hyper-scaling elastic design, regulatory compliance automation, compute, storage, networking, data storage, security, maximizing the latest cloud architectures, artificial intelligence, and data center control automation.

Your Impact

Contribute enhancements and features for services you are maintaining or building. You will own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing. Generate and demo clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on customer experience, security, performance, quality, resiliency, scalability, and maintainability. You commit to delivering the best customer experience to earn trust with partners and users.

Qualifications

College Degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related technical field; advanced studies/degree preferred

5 - 7 years technical engineering hands on work with more than one of the following coding languages: Python, TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, Go, Rust, Kotlin, C

2+ years of experience in infrastructure as code (like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform), CICD, & build automation (like Jenkins or AWS pipelines)

Experience with linux bash shell script and open to using power shell on MicroSoft systems

Comfortable with Git repositories, organisational change

You have released a RESTful APIs and GraphQL

Shown experience in design, coding, testing, problem solving, and debugging skills in any language

Exceptional writing and communications skills in English

Ability to travel at least 10% of the time

Keys to Success in the Role

Experience working in an Agile environment

Experience successfully working across fields, groups, and teams to ethically assure outcomes and alignment

Comfortable working in, elevating, and aligning when needed to a colleagues and leadership

5+ years DevOps experience developing innovative and practical AWS cloud application with Python

A strong background in risk management with a willingness to get regulatory compliance activities complete and correct every-time

Experience with cybersecurity with familiarity with application security

Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related services with proficiency in Ansible

Experience with Microsoft enterprise solutions or VMWare

Experience with GitHub + Open AI coding environments

You recognize that your success is tied to the success of your customers and your team

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $116,000 - $174,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

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