This is a multi-level posting. Candidates may be considered for any of the posted levels, depending on their level of experience and depth of expertise.
Our team is building a modern internal platform that powers the development and operation of critical business systems. The platform provides the foundational infrastructure, cloud-native runtime environments, developer tooling, and observability capabilities required to run reliable and scalable applications.
The platform spans multiple engineering domains including infrastructure, Kubernetes-based container platforms, developer tooling, messaging platforms, CI/CD systems, and observability platforms. These capabilities enable application teams to deploy and operate services through standardized, automated, and self-service workflows.
Our approach emphasizes software-driven infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, and modern observability practices. Engineers on the platform team build production-grade systems that improve reliability, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate software delivery across the organization.
The platform is built using technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Git-based workflows, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
The Software Engineer-Platform is responsible for designing, building, and operating the internal developer platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and operate software efficiently and reliably.
This role focuses on delivering self-service platform capabilities that standardize how applications are built, deployed, and operated across the organization. Platform Engineers work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to provide scalable platform services including container orchestration tooling, deployment pipelines, messaging systems, observability systems, and developer tooling.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering
Platform Automation & Tooling
CI/CD & Developer Workflows
Messaging & Event Streaming Platforms
Observability & Reliability
Security & Platform Governance
Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), computer science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. (Typically four years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)
A minimum of four years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering for level 2 is required.
A minimum of five or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering for level 3 is required.
Experience in one of the following areas:
Preferred:
MidAmerican Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation.
MidAmerican Energy Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns one of the largest renewable energy portfolios in the U.S. Our commitment to the environment begins with the manner in which we generate electricity. A growing portion of our electricity generation mix now comes from environmentally cleaner sources such as wind, water, the sun and the earth’s natural heat.
As part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s expansion into the unregulated renewables market, a primary subsidiary – BHE Renewables – was developed to oversee unregulated solar, wind, hydro and geothermal projects.
Based in Des Moines, Iowa, BHE Renewables encompasses BHE Solar, BHE Wind, BHE Geothermal and BHE Hydro.