Job Description
As a Engineer II, you will contribute to building and delivering high-quality compute platform products while growing your technical expertise and impact within the team. Your day-to-day will involve participating in sprint planning and design discussions, breaking down complex problems into manageable components, and delivering well-tested features with increasing ownership and independence. A successful candidate brings solid engineering fundamentals, a proactive mindset in identifying and solving issues, and a commitment to quality, reliability, and continuous improvement. What makes this role impactful is the opportunity to take on meaningful ownership of platform features, collaborate across teams, and develop both your technical depth and leadership skills through mentoring and hands-on 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.
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.
What you'll do
- Participate in planning and design discussions, contributing to well-reasoned technical decisions
- Break down complex problems into manageable tasks and deliver features with end-to-end ownership
- Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure-as-code while promoting reliability and monitoring best practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across environments, including production, with minimal oversight
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to improve team performance and outcomes
Basic qualifications
- 3 years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience, can included schooling
- 2 years of experience delivering enterprise compute platform features independently with strong technical execution
- 3 years Linux experience
- 2 years of experience with AWS IAM Roles and Permissions, security groups, monitoring and logging
- 3 years of experience in EC2/VM system architecture, design and implementation as a service
- 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)
Preferred qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification
- 4 years of professional experience
- 1 years of experience supporting AWS EC2, Auto-Scaling and Application Load Balancing
- 1 years of configuration management tooling experience: Terraform, Chef, Puppet & Ansible
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a willingness to mentor and continuously learn
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
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms
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
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Autoscalingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Chef (Configuration Management)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Systemsunmatched
- Configuration Managementunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Enterprise Computingunmatched
- Environmental Issuesunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Load Balancingunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Programming Toolsunmatched
- Puppet (Configuration Management)unmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Security Monitoringunmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Sprint Planningunmatched
- System Architectureunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Virtual Machine (VM)unmatched
- Work From Homeunmatched
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