Cloud Development Engineering Senior Principal

Pay and Benefits: 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Build and migrate the cloud-native platform. Design stateless, horizontally scalable OCP services and move the estate incrementally toward full cloud adoption without a big-bang rewrite.
• Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation. Create disposable, reproducible, self-service environments that shorten testing cycles and turn constrained test capacity into an engineering capability.
• Engineer production resilience, observability, and cost discipline. Make systems diagnosable by design with actionable traces, metrics, SLIs, and cost controls across compute, storage, telemetry, and cloud consumption.

• 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems, with the majority of that experience being hands-on and current coding responsibilities. 
• Deep cloud-native development expertise, including containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, stateless service design, and resilience patterns applied appropriately — retry with backoff, circuit breaking, idempotency, graceful degradation, and safe rollback.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Java/Python with meaningful understanding of infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices — including Terraform, Helm, and pipeline design as core engineering responsibilities rather than ancillary scripting.
• Proven distributed systems troubleshooting experience, demonstrated through specific production scenarios such as consumer lag and rebalance storms, partition skew, GC pauses and OOMKills, connection pool exhaustion, object-store throttling, and network partitions — including how these issues were diagnosed under time pressure.
• Strong instrumentation discipline, including OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing across service boundaries, custom metrics, structured logging with correlation IDs, RED/USE methodology, and SLI/SLO definition. This includes cardinality discipline and an understanding that poor instrumentation can create both reliability and cost challenges.
• Hands-on observability tooling depth across platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Splunk, with evidence of building the underlying signals rather than only consuming dashboards created by others.
• Cloud cost engineering and FinOps experience, including rightsizing and autoscaling policy, spot and reserved capacity, storage lifecycle and tiering, egress awareness, Kafka retention economics, Snowflake warehouse sizing and auto-suspend, telemetry ingestion volume, tagging and showback discipline, and the ability to express cost per unit of work rather than only as a monthly total.
• Streaming and data platform exposure, including Kafka operations, object storage, lakehouse table formats, and Snowflake. The role does not require being the data modeler, but it does require understanding how these platforms fail and what they cost to operate.
• Experience operating in hybrid and legacy environments, including mainframe-adjacent, private cloud, and public cloud estates, with delivery through dual-run and incremental cutover approaches rather than assumptions of a greenfield environment.
• Fluency in regulated environments and the ability to influence without authority, including change control, disaster recovery obligations, audit evidence, secrets management, least privilege, and the ability to establish engineering standards across teams not directly managed.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork.  When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.