This is a challenging opportunity for a Principal Performance engineer to play a pivotal role in identifying and recommending solutions to system performance and stability in the investment banking domain.
Fidelity Fund & Investment Operations (FFIO) provides accounting and investment management support services to Fidelity businesses and mutual fund shareholders. You will be playing a key role in ensuring that the system’s stability, availability and scalability meet the business needs in a timely and accurate manner. This will enable and help improve the overall customer experience.
The Purpose of This RoleFFIO provides accounting and investment management support services for Fidelity mutual funds and other retail and institutional investment products.
We are looking for a Principal Performance Engineer who will work in our core technology team partnering with business operations to evaluate end to end application performance by collaborating with Development teams, Reliability teams, QA teams and Business partners.
The Expertise We’re Looking ForBachelor's degree in Computer Science or related subject.
10+ years of experience in information technology.
Performance Engineering Skillset
Perform load and chaos tests to validate system performance, resiliency, and stability.
Create load test scripts to generate target concurrency and load on systems
Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, resiliency, and scalability.
Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and suggest corrective actions.
Oversee system performance lifecycle and identify key metrics for performance improvements.
Evaluate system performances and recommend improvements.
Generate periodic performance reports for management review.
Identify and provide innovative solutions that improve the capabilities of the performance engineering center of excellence.
Hands on experience in Performance scripting, execution and analysis using Jmeter/Locust /k6 performance tools.
Ability to design complex scenario test suites.
Ability to setup observability dashboards for performance monitoring and analysis.
Ability to analyze the root cause of Performance issues using Datadog/AWS CloudWatch/Grafana Dashboards.
Experience in Shell/Python/PERL/UNIX scripting
Exposure to JAVA, AWS Cloud fundamentals
Strong communication skills
Ability to diagram and summarize design solutions comfortably to a broad and diverse population.
Interact effectively with peers to resolve issues.
Ability to deal with ambiguity.
Self-motivated with a high degree of intellectual curiosity.
Is flexible and can adjust changes in operating environment.
Promotes positive and professional work environment.
Prior coding experience with JAVA/Python/Spring Boot.
Exposure to AWS and Cloud Technologies including AWS EKS, CloudWatch.
Basic knowledge of DevOps CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
Familiarity with NoSQL databases and database performance tuning.
Familiarity with Chaos Tools such as Gremlin, AWS FIS and Chaos Mesh.
Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles. Some roles may have unique onsite requirements. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.
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.
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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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