Junior Platform Engineer

Junior Platform Engineer, Officer

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a Junior Platform Developer to join Service Enablement on the AWS Platform Engineering team. Service Enablement is part of AWS Platform Engineering. The team develops and operates cloud platform capabilities that allow application teams to consume approved AWS services through standardized, automated engineering patterns.

Why this role is important to us

The Junior Platform Engineer contributes to the development and evolution of cloud platform services used by engineering teams across the organization. The role combines software engineering, Infrastructure as Code, cloud infrastructure, observability, and operational excellence to deliver secure, scalable, and reusable platform capabilities.

Working alongside experienced engineers, the successful candidate will develop and test automation, enhance service enablement capabilities, and support consistent engineering patterns across AWS platforms. The role offers a path to build depth across multiple platform models and, over time, broader cloud technologies.

What you will be responsible for

Software & Platform Engineering

• 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.

Infrastructure as Code & Service Enablement

• 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.

Platform Observability & Reliability

• 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.

Collaboration & Growth

• Work with engineers across AWS platform teams.
• 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.

What we value

• This role is best suited to a curious, development-oriented engineer who wants to build cloud platforms rather than perform manual infrastructure administration.
• Strong candidates will demonstrate coding ability, sound computer science fundamentals, disciplined testing habits, and an interest in automation, cloud architecture, observability, and distributed systems.
• Delivers well-tested code and Infrastructure as Code changes with coaching and review.
• Contributes useful automation and improvements to service enablement or observability capabilities.
• Demonstrates growing independence in debugging and resolving engineering problems.
• Builds effective working relationships across AWS platform teams.
• Progresses toward ownership of a defined component, service, or platform capability.

Education and Preferred Qualifications

·       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 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 a demonstrated ability to learn new technologies.

·       Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a distributed engineering team.

Additional Requirements

·       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.

·       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.

Salary Range:

$70,000 - $118,750 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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