Software Engineer, Associate II

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.

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/Dev Ops, and Security.

Translate requirements into actionable technical plans, enabling iterative delivery by breaking down problems, identifying dependencies, and managing risks. Engineering excellence is maintained through secure coding, rigorous testing, and performance standards, with automation integrated into the SDLC. Reliability is enhanced by implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting, while continuous improvement is driven by retrospectives and managing technical debt. Collaboration with Agile Development Leads focuses on optimizing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, ensuring production readiness through effective release planning and validation.

You will help teams deliver modern, secure, cloud-based solutions by setting clear technical direction, breaking down complex problems, and ensuring software is built to be resilient, observable, and maintainable in production.

• 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, Cloud Watch; Cloud Formation/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.

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.

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.

Time-type:

Full time

FLSA Status:

Non-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 $85,000 - $127,000 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.