Lead SRE: Scalable, High-Availability Systems

Socket.dev; North Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to design and lead reliability initiatives across distributed systems. You will architect resilient cloud-native platforms on AWS, implement CI/CD pipelines, and drive observability with Datadog, Grafana, and the ELK stack.

You will mentor engineers, perform advanced performance testing, and partner with leadership to define SLOs/SLIs, ensuring scalable, highly available services in a financial services environment.

Qualifications

• DE performing software performance benchmarking for online financial web applications using JMeter, Rushhour, Locust, and K6; configuring CI/CD and test automation with Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Artifactory, and Terraform in AWS.
• DE solutioning, designing, architecting, and building scalable enterprise platforms using AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, EMR, CloudFormation) and microservices on EKS.
• DE analyzing and monitoring system performance across Apache, NGINX, Java, and Node.js; using Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• DE instrumenting observability at scale; defining SLOs/SLIs; Python automation; IaC; alerting and incident response workflows.

Responsibilities

• Defines and leads enterprise-level reliability strategies.
• Architects resilient systems and infrastructure.
• Creates and publishes performance test results with recommendations.
• Maintains scalability and resiliency of complex environments.
• Implements advanced observability practices at scale.
• Manages and interprets large datasets using queries and visualization tools.
• Advises senior leadership on reliability engineering best practices.
• Mentors junior engineers.
• Performs independent technical and functional analyses for initiatives.
• Develops innovative solutions to improve availability, scalability, and performance.
• Designs, implements, and maintains performance test frameworks.

Skills

Performance benchmarking

DevOps practices

Python scripting

Shell scripting

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

Spring Boot

Docker

EKS

Terraform

Monitoring & observability

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

ELK stack

JMeter

Locust

RushHour

Jenkins

Maven

CloudFormation

CI/CD tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT Management, IS Security, Business Administration

Five (5) years of experience as Principal Site Reliability Engineer (or closely related)

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT Management, IS Security, Business Administration

Three (3) years of experience as Principal Site Reliability Engineer (or closely related)

Job description

Fidelity Investments is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to design and lead reliability initiatives across distributed systems. You will architect resilient cloud-native platforms on AWS, implement CI/CD pipelines, and drive observability with Datadog, Grafana, and the ELK stack.

You will mentor engineers, perform advanced performance testing, and partner with leadership to define SLOs/SLIs, ensuring scalable, highly available services in a financial services environment.