Principal SRE: Build Resilient, Scalable Cloud Systems

Worky; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments in Durham, NC seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and support distributed systems at scale across AWS. You will design and operate resilient platforms, implement observability, and lead SRE practices with SLOs, SLIs, and incident response strategies.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures, while driving performance testing, automation, and data-driven reliability improvements across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have strong reliability engineering experience in financial services or equivalent.
• Experience with performance benchmarking and CI/CD in AWS environments.
• Familiarity with observability tools and incident response practices.

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 query languages and visualization tools.
• Advises senior leadership on reliability engineering best practices.
• Mentors junior engineers.
• Performs complex technical analyses for multiple initiatives.
• Develops innovative solutions to improve system availability, scalability, and performance.
• Designs, implements, and maintains performance test frameworks.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Performance testing

Observability

Cloud architecture

CI/CD automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Docker

Datadog

Grafana

ELK stack

JMeter

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

Fidelity Investments in Durham, NC seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and support distributed systems at scale across AWS. You will design and operate resilient platforms, implement observability, and lead SRE practices with SLOs, SLIs, and incident response strategies.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures, while driving performance testing, automation, and data-driven reliability improvements across complex environments.