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Fidelity Investments · 14 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments is seeking a skilled individual contributor for their Workplace Investment Quality Engineering Center of Excellence. This role focuses on enhancing the resilience and observability of WI applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure environmental stability and proactive issue resolution.

Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesRetirementWealth Management
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Responsibilities

Support the resilience and observability of Workplace Investment (WI) applications across pre-production and non-production test environments
Drive monitoring initiatives across WI product lines—including Health Care (HC) and Stock Plan Services (SPS)
Work closely with development, engineering, and operations teams to identify and address root causes
Regular reporting to leadership
Partner with Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) to align monitoring practices with production standards
Collaborates effectively with operations teams and business stakeholders to improve stability, reliability, and performance
Supports operational readiness, incident response, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on root cause analysis
Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences
Engages stakeholders effectively, balancing technical constraints and business priorities
Designs, scales, and sustains automation initiatives across teams and environments
Breaks down complex initiatives into actionable work with clear business value
Self-directed professional with strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
Demonstrates a collaborative mindset, strong ownership, and continuous improvement focus

Qualification

Monitoring platformsDistributed systemsCI/CDDevOps toolingContainer orchestrationJavaPythonCloud platformsAnalytical skillsProblem-solving skillsCollaborationCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
9+ years of experience supporting and operating complex, largescale production environments
Deep technical expertise and extensive hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, and the ELK stack
Strong proficiency in distributed systems and technologies, including Java, Python, and cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure
Experience working with both batch processing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications
Proven hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling, including GitHub, Jenkins, Concourse, Ansible, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory, Sonar, Veracode, Kubernetes, and UDeploy
Practical experience with container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, and ECS

Company

Fidelity Investments

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Fidelity’s mission is to strengthen the financial well-being of our customers and deliver better outcomes for the clients and businesses we serve.

H1B Sponsorship

Fidelity Investments has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (8)
2023 (4)
2022 (6)
2021 (8)
2020 (30)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$152.82M
Key Investors
Apple
2020-12-28Secondary Market· $2.5M
2018-01-14Secondary Market· $1M
2017-05-03Secondary Market· $12.5M

Leadership Team

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Abigail Johnson
Chairman & CEO
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Jeanmarie Ward
Senior Vice President of Architecture
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