Junior Platform Engineer, Officer

State Street•Quincy, MA

3d•$70,000 - $118,750

About The Position

The Junior Platform Engineer will join Service Enablement on the AWS Platform Engineering team. Service Enablement develops and operates cloud platform capabilities that let application teams consume approved AWS services through standardized, automated engineering patterns. The role contributes to the development and evolution of cloud platform services used across the organization. It combines software engineering, Infrastructure as Code, cloud infrastructure, observability, and operational excellence to deliver secure, scalable, reusable platform capabilities. Working with experienced engineers, the Junior Platform Engineer develops and tests automation, enhances service enablement capabilities, and supports consistent engineering patterns across AWS platforms. The position also offers opportunities to build knowledge across platform models and broader cloud technologies. The role suits a curious, development-oriented engineer interested in building cloud platforms rather than performing manual infrastructure administration. The successful candidate will deliver well-tested code and Infrastructure as Code changes with coaching and review, contribute automation and service enablement or observability improvements, grow in debugging independence, collaborate across AWS platform teams, and progress toward ownership of a defined component, service, or platform capability.

Requirements

Experience with at least one general-purpose programming language; Python is preferred.
Understanding of software development fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, debugging, automated testing, and source control.
Ability to write and maintain unit tests and reason about unfamiliar code.
Foundational understanding of Linux, networking, and cloud computing concepts.
Strong analytical problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies.
Clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate in a distributed engineering team.
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, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, or alerting.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Familiarity with containers, APIs, distributed systems, graph-based problems, or data-processing concepts.
Experience gained through internships, coursework, open-source contributions, labs, or personal engineering projects.
An AWS foundational or associate-level certification.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, and maintain software and automation that enable cloud platform services.
Contribute to reusable components, libraries, templates, and engineering patterns.
Write maintainable code with appropriate unit tests, documentation, and version control.
Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and continuous improvement activities.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform.
Help enable AWS services across multi-tenant and vended account environments.
Automate repeatable platform workflows to improve quality, consistency, and developer experience.
Assist with validating platform changes through automated testing and controlled deployment practices.
Contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, metrics, dashboards, and telemetry capabilities.
Use platform signals to help investigate defects, performance issues, and reliability concerns.
Improve the testability, operability, and resilience of platform services.
Work with engineers across AWS platform teams and collaborate with application, security, architecture, and infrastructure partners.
Create clear technical documentation and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
Build progressively deeper knowledge of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
Build effective working relationships across AWS platform teams and progress toward ownership of a defined component, service, or platform capability.

Benefits

Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
Access to the Employee Assistance Program.
Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, with some sales-role exceptions.
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
Inclusive development opportunities.
Flexible work-life support.
Paid volunteer days.
Employee networks.