The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Marathon Petroleum is hiring a AWS Engineer in Pasadena, CA.

• Role description

  We're after an AWS Engineer whose idea of a good day is an ownership-driven pull request that closed three tickets and opened zero. Set the $107,000 - $165,000 aside a moment and the technology ownership alone makes this Marathon Petroleum job worth a serious look.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Question the quietly-ambitious Time Management pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
  • Automate the manual Time Management chores that quietly drain Pasadena, CA engineering hours
  • Ship Time Management experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
  • Own the Python release that Pasadena leadership has circled on the calendar
  • Own the bias-to-action Jenkins subsystem that the rest of Marathon Petroleum quietly depends on

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort being measured against a clear mid-level bar
  • The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
  • Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities
  • A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
  • Resilience measured across 5 years of technology cycles
  • Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision

  Marathon Petroleum spent 4 years in the trenches of technology so its clients across Pasadena, CA wouldn't have to. We build an environment where slow-to-anger ideas get tested quickly and credit is shared fairly.

  The bottom line: $107,000 - $165,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexibility, wrapped into an AWS Engineer role that grows as fast as you do.

  Current and accurate as of this visit, the freelance opening stands ready.

  If steady freelance work with real stakes appeals to you, the AWS Engineer chair is waiting.

• Required skills

  • Service Mesh
  • PagerDuty
  • AWS Lambda
  • Python
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD
  • Pulumi
  • Time Management
  • Delegation

• Benefits & perks

  • Flexible Hours
  • Structured 30-60-90 day plan
  • Employee discount program
  • Four-day work week
  • Wellness reimbursement account
  • Recognition and rewards platform
  • Referral bonus program
  • Onboarding buddy program
  • Disability Insurance
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Voluntary benefits marketplace

• Apply before 2026-08-30

  Submit your application for this Freelance technology position.