Cloud Development Engineering Senior Principal

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base pay and annual incentive

Health and life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

PTO and family care leave

Hybrid onsite/remote model

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Development Engineer to lead cloud transformation, design scalable platforms, and set engineering standards across teams. You will mentor engineers, drive DevSecOps, IaC, platform engineering, and AI-enabled development practices to accelerate delivery in hybrid environments.

Join a mission-critical infrastructure provider that values secure, reliable technology and collaboration across business units.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems.
• Cloud-native development expertise, including containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, stateless service design, and resilience patterns.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Java/Python with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices.
• Distributed systems troubleshooting experience in production environments.
• Strong instrumentation discipline with OpenTelemetry and tracing.
• Hands-on observability tooling across Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
• Cloud cost engineering and FinOps experience, including rightsizing and autoscaling.
• Streaming and data platform exposure, including Kafka and Snowflake.
• Experience operating in hybrid and legacy environments across private/public clouds.
• Fluency in regulated environments and influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Build and migrate the cloud-native platform with stateless, scalable OCP services.
• Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation and self-service environments.
• Engineer production resilience, observability, and cost discipline across compute, storage, and cloud consumption.

Skills

Cloud-native dev

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Terraform/Helm

Distributed systems

FinOps

Hybrid/cloud leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

Kafka

Snowflake

Job description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay And Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role

As a Senior Principal Cloud Development Engineer, you will be a key technology leader responsible for accelerating DTCC's cloud transformation and modern engineering initiatives. You will guide the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native platforms and applications that enable business growth, operational efficiency, and innovation. You will work across business and technology organizations to establish cloud engineering standards, modern software development practices, and platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and solution delivery. Through your technical leadership, you will help modernize legacy environments, optimize cloud adoption strategies, and advance enterprise architecture objectives. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions, mentor engineering teams, and drive the adoption of automation, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, and AI-enabled development practices. Your work will directly contribute to building the next generation of technology platforms that support DTCC's mission as a critical financial market infrastructure provider.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Build and migrate the cloud-native platform. Design stateless, horizontally scalable OCP services and move the estate incrementally toward full cloud adoption without a big-bang rewrite.
• Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation. Create disposable, reproducible, self-service environments that shorten testing cycles and turn constrained test capacity into an engineering capability.
• Engineer production resilience, observability, and cost discipline. Make systems diagnosable by design with actionable traces, metrics, SLIs, and cost controls across compute, storage, telemetry, and cloud consumption.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed For Success

• 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems, with the majority of that experience being hands‑on and current coding responsibilities.
• Deep cloud-native development expertise, including containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, stateless service design, and resilience patterns applied appropriately — retry with backoff, circuit breaking, idempotency, graceful degradation, and safe rollback.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Java/Python with meaningful understanding of infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices — including Terraform, Helm, and pipeline design as core engineering responsibilities rather than ancillary scripting.
• Proven distributed systems troubleshooting experience, demonstrated through specific production scenarios such as consumer lag and rebalance storms, partition skew, GC pauses and OOMKills, connection pool exhaustion, object-store throttling, and network partitions — including how these issues were diagnosed under time pressure.
• Strong instrumentation discipline, including OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing across service boundaries, custom metrics, structured logging with correlation IDs, RED/USE methodology, and SLI/SLO definition. This includes cardinality discipline and an understanding that poor instrumentation can create both reliability and cost challenges.
• Hands‑on observability tooling depth across platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Splunk, with evidence of building the underlying signals rather than only consuming dashboards created by others.
• Cloud cost engineering and FinOps experience, including rightsizing and autoscaling policy, spot and reserved capacity, storage lifecycle and tiering, egress awareness, Kafka retention economics, Snowflake warehouse sizing and auto‑suspend, telemetry ingestion volume, tagging and showback discipline, and the ability to express cost per unit of work rather than only as a monthly total.
• Streaming and data platform exposure, including Kafka operations, object storage, lakehouse table formats, and Snowflake. The role does not require being the data modeler, but it does require understanding how these platforms fail and what they cost to operate.
• Experience operating in hybrid and legacy environments, including mainframe‑adjacent, private cloud, and public cloud estates, with delivery through dual‑run and incremental cutover approaches rather than assumptions of a greenfield environment.
• Fluency in regulated environments and the ability to influence without authority, including change control, disaster recovery obligations, audit evidence, secrets management, least privilege, and the ability to establish engineering standards across teams not directly managed.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.