FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
As a Software Engineering-Lead Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and evolution of our cloud-native platform infrastructure. This role will be key in building and maintaining scalable, resilient systems that support our engineering teams in delivering innovative solutions efficiently and reliably. The ideal candidate will bring solid technical expertise in platform engineering practices, SRE & DevOps methodologies, and infrastructure automation.
What You'll Contribute
Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud solutions on AWS public cloud platform via Infrastructure as Code.
Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging CloudFormation, Terraform, and Golang.
Design and implement Kubernetes-based platform solutions with focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
Support and maintain large Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to integrate infrastructure as code practices.
Automation and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
Develop automation to build and deploy Docker Containers through CI/CD pipelines for engineering teams deploy and test services.
Write policy & standard validation tests and integrations with Security Scanning software to ensure compliance.
Implement and support Observability solutions to ensure platform performance, reliability, and scalability.
Create Dashboards and integrate into Backstage IDP for visibility into system health.
What We're Seeking
Experience in cloud & platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles with demonstrated growth.
Strong proficiency with AWS cloud services including compute, storage, networking, and cloud native services.
Deep Knowledge of AWS EKS or running multiple Kubernetes instances, VPC Configuration, AWS Waf, S3, RDS, and other cloud services.
Solid hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for Kubernetes application delivery.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Golang, and Python for resource provisioning and deployments.
Experience with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions. Experience with Crossplane a plus.
Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio and Envoy.
Programming skills in Golang and/or Python for building platform tooling and automation.
Experience with Grafanna, Otel, and Backstage.
Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively on technical initiatives.
Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams.
Understanding of SRE or Software Engineering practices and principles.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer) preferred.
Our Offer to You
An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
Why Make a Move to FICO?
At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.
FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:
• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!
Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers
FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.
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Skills Required
- Experience in cloud & platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles
- Strong proficiency with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, cloud-native services)
- Deep knowledge of AWS EKS / multiple Kubernetes instances, VPC configuration, AWS WAF, S3, RDS
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and related tooling
- Programming skills in Golang and/or Python for platform tooling and automation
- Experience with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions
- Experience supporting and maintaining large Kubernetes clusters in production
- Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy
- Implement security best practices and integrations with security scanning tools and policy validation
- Implement and support observability solutions (Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and dashboard integration (Backstage)
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively; strong communication skills
- Understanding of SRE or software engineering practices and principles
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Experience with Crossplane
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer)
FICO Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about FICO and has not been reviewed or approved by FICO.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off offerings include paid holidays, paid sick days, and PTO, with typical vacation time described in the mid‑teens to ~20 days per year. Paid maternity and paternity leave are also included, which strengthens overall leave coverage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity-related rewards include an Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a discounted purchase feature, and broader participation in performance-based equity grants is described. These ownership programs can materially increase total rewards beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as available up to 12 weeks, alongside a Family Building Benefits Program that supports fertility, adoption, surrogacy, and related services. This adds targeted support for employees navigating parenthood and family planning.
FICO Insights
What We Do
Headquartered in Silicon Valley USA, FICO® (NYSE:FICO) is a leading analytics software company, helping businesses in over 80 countries make better decisions that drive higher levels of growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. The company’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries.







