What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Software Engineer position at Fidelity Investments?
Job Description
The Role
The Workplace Investment Quality Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) is seeking a skilled individual contributor to support the resilience and observability of Workplace Investment (WI) applications across pre-production and non-production test environments. This role involves hands-on technical development and partnership, cross-functional collaboration, and a strong focus on proactive issue resolution and environmental stability.
The successful candidate will drive monitoring initiatives across WI product lines—including Health Care (HC) and Stock Plan Services (SPS)—and work closely with development, engineering, and operations teams to identify and address root causes. This role also includes regular reporting to leadership and partnership with Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) to align monitoring practices with production standards.
Required Qualifications And Experience
The WI Quality Engineering CoE is committed to driving innovation, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer experience. Our mission is to promote stability through engineering excellence across all WI environments, reducing friction in the software development lifecycle, and increasing transparency throughout the organization.
Certifications
Category:
Information Technology
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.
The Role
The Workplace Investment Quality Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) is seeking a skilled individual contributor to support the resilience and observability of Workplace Investment (WI) applications across pre-production and non-production test environments. This role involves hands-on technical development and partnership, cross-functional collaboration, and a strong focus on proactive issue resolution and environmental stability.
The successful candidate will drive monitoring initiatives across WI product lines—including Health Care (HC) and Stock Plan Services (SPS)—and work closely with development, engineering, and operations teams to identify and address root causes. This role also includes regular reporting to leadership and partnership with Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) to align monitoring practices with production standards.
Required Qualifications And Experience
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- 9 years of experience supporting and operating complex, largescale production environments
- Deep technical expertise and extensive hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, and the ELK stack
- Strong proficiency in distributed systems and technologies, including Java, Python, and cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure
- Experience working with both batch processing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications
- Proven hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling, including GitHub, Jenkins, Concourse, Ansible, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory, Sonar, Veracode, Kubernetes, and UDeploy
- Practical experience with container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, and ECS
- Collaborates effectively with operations teams and business stakeholders to improve stability, reliability, and performance
- Supports operational readiness, incident response, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on root cause analysis
- Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Engages stakeholders effectively, balancing technical constraints and business priorities
- Designs, scales, and sustains automation initiatives across teams and environments
- Breaks down complex initiatives into actionable work with clear business value
- Self-directed professional with strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Demonstrates a collaborative mindset, strong ownership, and continuous improvement focus
The WI Quality Engineering CoE is committed to driving innovation, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer experience. Our mission is to promote stability through engineering excellence across all WI environments, reducing friction in the software development lifecycle, and increasing transparency throughout the organization.
Certifications
Category:
Information Technology
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.