Job Title – Principal Engineer
The Purpose of This Role
As a Release engineer, you are responsible for driving successful planning, coordination, and delivery of releases across multiple technology platforms. This role works closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, and Operations teams to ensure predictable, high‑quality releases while fostering transparent, data‑driven decision making.
The release engineer will play a critical role in establishing and continuously improving release readiness, quality standards, and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on cloud‑native delivery and AWS best practices. You will drive improvements to the release process over time, should drive automation, reduce risk and effort on releases over time, ensuring the right metrics and reporting is put in place. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and optimize cloud strategies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. Your role will also involve coordination with multiple teams, promoting best practices, and staying abreast of emerging technologies to maintain our competitive edge.
The Value You Deliver
Value You Deliver:
As a release engineer, you will be accountable for how and when the platform releases, not what features are built.
The role focuses on:
- Release predictability
- Readiness and quality
- Cross team coordination
- Transparent, data driven decision making
- Release automation and risk reduction
The Core responsibilities for this role
Release Planning & Predictability- Owns and maintains the platform release calendar
- Drives releases across multiple platforms
- Defines and communicates release milestones (code freeze, test complete, release date)
- Ensures release dates are explicit, visible, and realistic
- Manages late scope changes and clearly communicates impact
- Ensure relevant metrics and reporting mechanisms are in place for every release
- Defines and enforces release‑level readiness criteria, including:
- Testing completeness (automated and manual where applicable)
- Security and compliance checks
- Documentation and consumer‑facing communication
- Continuously assesses readiness across all participating teams
- Drives improvements of the release process, should focus on automation and reducing risk and effort
- Identifies risks early and drives mitigation while there is still time to act
- Leads structured release readiness reviews
- Presents objective readiness signals based on data and recommends go-nogo to leadership
- Escalates unresolved risks with context and recommended actions
- Acts as the single coordination point across:
- Platform development squads
- Platform management & infrastructure teams
- Security, compliance, and operations
- Makes dependencies and assumptions visible
- Reduces late surprises caused by misalignment or unclear ownership
- Aligns functional releases with platform management activities
- Owns the Production Release Assessment (PRA) process where applicable
- Ensures consistent release communication to:
- Platform customers (producer and consumer app teams)
- Support and operations teams
- Platform leadership
- Publishes concise release summaries covering:
- Included capabilities
- Known risks or limitations
- Consumer impact (especially breaking or behavior‑changing changes)
- Captures release learnings and recurring patterns
- Tracks release health indicators:
- Late scope changes
- Release date slippage
- Post‑release defects or incidents
- Drives improvements to the release process over time
- Cloud Experience: Working knowledge in AWS and various services such as EKS, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Route 53, Lambda, PostgreSQL etc.
- Kubernetes Experience: Knowledge in designing scalable and robust systems on Kubernetes, preferably EKS.
- DevOps Knowledge: Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, and other DevOps practices
- API Development: Knowledgeable of API development, lifecycle management, and gateways like APIGEE or Envoy is nice to have.
- System Design: Knowledge of design of Tier 0 systems and platforms
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
FAE domain is the part of Enterprise Technology with the focus on Engineering and architecture. We enable Fidelity business units to safely and securely adapt to cloud at scale. The cross-enterprise collaboration enables the delivery of solutions that meet the emerging digital expectations of Fidelity’s customers and clients.
The Expertise We’re Looking For
- 12+ years of IT experience
- Graduate
- Certifications if any
Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Headquartered in Boston, US, Fidelity's goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. Privately held for nearly 70 years, Fidelity employs 45,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. FMR (Fidelity Management & Research) India is the Global Inhouse Center of Fidelity Investments. Headquartered at Bangalore, where operations commenced in 2003, FMR India has another fully-functional unit at Chennai. To know more visit : FMR India
Location : Bangalore - EGL / Chennai
Certifications:Category:Information TechnologySkills Required
- 12+ years of IT experience
- Graduate degree
- Cloud experience with AWS (EKS, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Route 53, Lambda)
- PostgreSQL experience
- Kubernetes experience (designing scalable systems, preferably EKS)
- DevOps knowledge: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD
- Experience owning release planning, readiness criteria, go/no-go decisions and release calendar
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams (platform squads, infra, security, operations)
- Experience driving release automation, risk reduction and release health metrics
- API development / gateway knowledge (Apigee or Envoy)
- Certifications (if any)
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.
Fidelity Investments Insights
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.
