Assist in developing and maintaining core platform services, libraries, and tools in Node.js and TypeScript that improve developer experience and system-wide functionality.
Contribute to building solutions on our edge computing platform (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge) to help enhance performance, security, and reliability.
Help build and maintain the software and systems that power our CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to ship code with confidence and speed.
Assist in maintaining our cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (Terraform, Kubernetes) under the guidance of senior team members.
Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system performance, reliability, observability, and security posture.
Write and maintain automation scripts to replace manual processes, improving engineering team velocity and system reliability.
Collaboration
Participate in the full software development life cycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, and maintenance).
Proactively seek constructive criticism of your own work and offer thoughtful feedback to others in a way that builds relationships.
Assist in troubleshooting efforts during production incidents and participate in post-mortems to learn and improve system resilience.
Learning & Execution
Take ownership of assigned tasks and features, seeing them through from development to deployment with the support of your team
Actively learn and stay curious about emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards related to backend development, cloud infrastructure, automation, and security
Embrace a culture of continuous learning by pairing with senior engineers and participating in team knowledge-sharing sessions
Contribute to the technology that influences the way baseball is consumed by millions of users worldwide
Qualifications & Skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience (e.g., bootcamp graduation)
0-2 years of software development experience (including internships, co-ops, or significant academic/personal project work)
Proficiency or strong interest in modern programming languages, particularly Node.js and TypeScript
Basic knowledge of web fundamentals, APIs, and how data moves across the internet
Understanding of CI/CD concepts and version control (e.g., Git, GitHub Actions)
Requirements
Previous internship or co-op experience in backend services, infrastructure, or web platforms
Experience in full-stack JavaScript development, with exposure to modern frontend applications (e.g., React, Vue, Svelte)
Experience working with at least one major Cloud platform such as Google Cloud, AWS, or similar
Demonstrated familiarity with, or a strong desire to learn about, edge computing platforms (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge)
Basic understanding of cloud-native concepts and tooling such as containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform)
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the cu
Major League Baseball is hiring an Associate Software Engineer for our Web Platform Architecture team. This team is responsible for building and operating the foundational web platform that powers MLB.com and our entire suite of digital products. This includes our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, edge computing layer, and the core services that enable our product engineering teams to deliver features safely, quickly, and at a massive scale for millions of users.
As an Associate Software Engineer on this team, you will play an important role in supporting the reliability, scalability, and performance of our digital platforms by writing code and helping build robust systems. You will be a hands-on developer, collaborating with senior engineers to create core services in Node.js, contribute to solutions on our edge network, and assist in maintaining the automated infrastructure that underpins it all.
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