Software Engineer, Associate II

Position Overview

Freddie Mac is seeking a Software Engineer, Associate II to drive technical execution and engineering excellence for one or more agile delivery teams. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who partners with Product, Architecture, Platform/DevOps, and Security.

Qualifications

• Typically 1-3 years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services.
• College Degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Cloud experience, particularly AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch; CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform).
• SDLC skills: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, branching strategies, and release practices.
• Working knowledge of observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production support practices (incident triage, RCA).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations.
• Familiarity with security and compliance expectations in regulated environments (e.g., data protection, access controls, auditability).
• Experience with multiple languages/frameworks and a “best tool for the job” mindset.

Keys to Success

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations.
• Familiarity with security and compliance expectations in regulated environments (e.g., data protection, access controls, auditability).
• Experience with multiple languages/frameworks and a “best tool for the job” mindset.