Job 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. Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
What you'll do
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. Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
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
- 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:
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 perform
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive perform
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1966 |
| Website | http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/ |
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.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Autoscalingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Chef (Configuration Management)unmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Systemsunmatched
- Configuration Managementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Load Balancingunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Productivity Managementunmatched
- Programming Languagesunmatched
- Programming Toolsunmatched
- Puppet (Configuration Management)unmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Scalable System Developmentunmatched
- Security Monitoringunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- System Architectureunmatched
- Systems Reliabilityunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Virtual Machine (VM)unmatched
- Work From Homeunmatched
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