Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
The Role
We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on technical leader and platform builder. You will report to the engineering lead and will be responsible for delivering core platform capabilities within Fidelity’s Enterprise Observability Platform. You’ll own system architecture, observability, security, and delivery while collaborating closely with product owners and engineering teams.
What you’ll do (responsibilities):
- Design and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and services that operate at large scale and low latency.
- Lead the architecture and build of high-throughput data streaming pipelines (real-time/event streaming), including ingestion, processing, and durable storage.
- Develop and own observability for systems: metrics, tracing, structured logging, dashboards, alerts and SLOs.
- Implement application instrumentation and collaborate with platform teams to standardize telemetry and monitoring practices.
- Use AWS native services (MSK, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) to deliver robust solutions.
- Design and enforce secure networking and firewall architectures (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NACLs, load balancers, private endpoints).
- Write production-quality code and tests in at least one major language (Python, Java, Go, or Node.js). Own CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
- Drive projects end-to-end: translate product requirements, create execution plans, identify risks, and coordinate across product, security, infra, and operations teams.
- Mentor engineers, run design reviews, and improve team practices around reliability, scalability, and operability.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring:
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, partitioning, replication, consistency models, leader election, backpressure, and fault tolerance.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating highly available, highly scalable production systems.
- Deep knowledge of observability: metrics, tracing, logging formats specially OpenTelemetry , alerting, and SLO/SLI design.
- Experience implementing application instrumentation libraries and sidecars; familiarity with sampling, tagging, and context propagation.
- Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, load balancing, NAT, DNS, VPC design, security groups, firewalls, and TLS.
- Proven experience building solutions using AWS native services (design patterns and tradeoffs).
- Experience designing and building real-time/high-speed streaming pipelines capable of processing large volumes of data; familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar.
- Hands-on coding: able to implement, debug, and ship production code; strong test discipline and experience with CI/CD.
- Experience with building containerized applications using Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to drive projects with product managers and stakeholders.
Nice-to-have
- Experience with observability platforms like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Background in performance tuning, JVM internals, or low-latency systems.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience building multi-region or global systems.
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Skills Required
- Design and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Design and build high-throughput real-time/event streaming pipelines (ingestion, processing, durable storage)
- Deep knowledge of observability: metrics, tracing, logging (OpenTelemetry), alerting, SLO/SLI design
- Implement application instrumentation and telemetry standardization
- Experience with AWS native services (MSK, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, VPC design, load balancing, NAT, DNS, security groups, NACLs, TLS
- Hands-on coding and testing in at least one major language (Python, Java, Go, or Node.js)
- Own CI/CD pipelines and release automation
- Experience building containerized applications with Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
- Proven experience designing and operating highly available, highly scalable production systems
- Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming)
- Ability to drive projects end-to-end and mentor engineers; strong written and verbal communication
- Experience with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Background in performance tuning, JVM internals, or low-latency systems; multi-region/global systems experience
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
