Engineer I - Compute Platform

Best Buy

Saint Paul, Minnesota
7 days ago

Highlights

You'll work in an environment that values learning, mentorship, and engineering best practices while gaining hands-on experience with production systems, technical design, and real-world problem solving. Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Saint Paul, Minnesota
Industry	Retail
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1966
Website	http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/

Description

We are seeking motivated early-career cloud engineers to join our team and contribute to building reliable, scalable, and high-quality applications. In this role, you will take ownership of small-to-medium features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and continuously grow your technical expertise. You'll work in an environment that values learning, mentorship, and engineering best practices while gaining hands-on experience with production systems, technical design, and real-world problem solving.

In this role, you'll primarily work virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location. However, you must live within a drivable distance to our corporate campus in Richfield, Minnesota. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team, and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.

What you'll do

Independently deliver small to moderately complex compute platform features and bug fixes from backlog to production
Participate in technical design discussions and contribute ideas with guidance from Senior Engineers
Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development and production environments, including on-call support
Apply engineering best practices to improve system reliability, performance, and availability
Collaborate with teammates and stakeholders to clarify requirements and reduce rework
Identify opportunities to improve team productivity through automation and process improvements
Build relationships across teams and begin mentoring less experienced engineers

Basic qualifications

2 years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience, can include schooling
1 year of experience with at least one programming language and fundamental software development practices, preferably Python
2 years of experience delivering mid- large sized compute platform features independently with strong technical execution
2 years Linux experience
1 year of experience with AWS IAM Roles and Permissions, security groups, monitoring and logging
1 year of experience in EC2/VM system architecture, design and implementation as a service

Preferred qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification
3 years of professional experience
1 year of experience supporting AWS EC2, Auto-Scaling and Application Load Balancing
1 year of configuration management tooling experience: Terraform, Chef, Puppet & Ansible
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a willingness to mentor and continuously learn
Ability to identify risks, solving moderately complex problems, and make sound technical trade-offs
Familiarity with SDLC, agile practices, and modern development tools (testing, monitoring, automation)

What's in it for you

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

Competitive pay
Great employee discount
Financial savings and retirement resources
Support for your physical and mental well-being

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, includ

About Company

Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.