Software Engineer Associate II: Cloud & Secure Delivery

Freddie Mac; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Freddie Mac in the United States is seeking a Software Engineer, Associate II to drive technical execution for agile teams. This hands-on role partners with Product, Architecture, Platform/DevOps, and Security to deliver secure, cloud-based software.

You will work to ensure production-ready software with automated testing, CI/CD, and robust observability, while applying best practices across the SDLC. The position emphasizes reliability, monitoring, and collaboration across teams to modernize

Qualifications

• Typically 1-3 years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services.
• Cloud experience, notably AWS services (ECS/EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• SDLC skills: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, branching strategies, and release practices.
• Observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production support practices (incident triage, RCA).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into actionable technical plans, enabling iterative delivery and managing risks.
• Drive engineering excellence with secure coding, rigorous testing, and performance standards.
• Collaborate with Agile leads to optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for production readiness.
• Help teams deliver modern, secure, cloud-based solutions by setting clear technical direction.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Production support

Communication skills

Security/compliance

Multi-language/frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

CDK

Terraform

Job description

Freddie Mac in the United States is seeking a Software Engineer, Associate II to drive technical execution for agile teams. This hands-on role partners with Product, Architecture, Platform/DevOps, and Security to deliver secure, cloud-based software.

You will work to ensure production-ready software with automated testing, CI/CD, and robust observability, while applying best practices across the SDLC. The position emphasizes reliability, monitoring, and collaboration across teams to modernize