Job Description:
Principal Cloud Engineer - Observability Platform
The Role
Do you want to work on leading edge cloud technologies which are transforming how developers work with cloud?
As a Principal Cloud Engineer in our Cloud Platforms area, you will work within a diverse team comprised of passionate technologists who believe in the power of innovation and constant collaboration. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can achieve outstanding things. We are passionate about opensource contributions, sharing our expertise and knowledge with the engineering community while adopting a continuous learning approach supported by a dedicated learning day each week.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 7+ years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience in 2 or more languages (Python, Java, Go etc.).
- Hands-on experience designing and building scalable and resilient applications in the cloud.
- Good knowledge on networking concepts such as DNS, Load Balancers, routers etc.
- Experience in troubleshooting Linux based systems
- Experience on containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
- Experience in deploying applications in AWS platforms such as EC2 & EKS or equivalent platforms from any other cloud provider such as GCP, Azure etc
- Experience in building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Step functions etc
- Experience delivering software using engineering best practices and principles.
- Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CFT, CDK, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment using ALM tools such as Jenkins.
- Passion for new technologies and cloud trends.
Bonus skills
- Cloud Certifications in AWS.
- Experience working on Logging, Metrics, and Tracing frameworks and understanding of Logging and Metrics Data Models.
- Experience operating and/or using modern observability tools at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, Open Telemetry, fluentD, fluentBit, Open Tracing, Datadog, Splunk, etc…)
- Hands-on experience with Open Telemetry (OTEL) or any opensource implementations.
The Team
This is an opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Observability Platform team in Fidelity Architecture Engineering (FAE) who are responsible for enabling the next generation cloud applications and platforms across Fidelity. You will work in a diverse, open and transparent culture using innovative solutions with the latest cloud native technologies and leading-edge engineering practices.
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Category:Information Technology
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
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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.







