Observability Platform Engineering Technical Lead

Fidelity Investments

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in a technical leadership role within distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and observability
  • Experience with building and operating scalable production systems
  • Proven expertise with AWS services and real-time data processing pipelines
  • Hands-on experience in coding and CI/CD processes
  • Solid knowledge of networking concepts and security architectures
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Lead the architecture of high-throughput data streaming pipelines
  • Develop observability standards for system monitoring
  • Implement application instrumentation and telemetry practices
  • Utilize AWS services to develop robust technological solutions
  • Design networking and security frameworks for the architecture
  • Write production-ready code and manage CI/CD pipeline processes
  • Drive projects from requirement gathering to execution and mentoring

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional team interactions
  • Opportunities for mentorship and technical leadership
  • Involvement in high-impact projects within a leading financial organization
  • Access to the latest technologies and best practices in observability and distributed systems
  • Strong focus on professional development and continuous learning
Full Job Description

Job Description:

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on technical leader and platform builder. You will report to the engineering lead and will be responsible for delivering core platform capabilities within Fidelity’s Enterprise Observability Platform. You’ll own system architecture, observability, security, and delivery while collaborating closely with product owners and engineering teams.

What you’ll do (responsibilities):

  • Design and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and services that operate at large scale and low latency.
  • Lead the architecture and build of high-throughput data streaming pipelines (real-time/event streaming), including ingestion, processing, and durable storage.
  • Develop and own observability for systems: metrics, tracing, structured logging, dashboards, alerts and SLOs.
  • Implement application instrumentation and collaborate with platform teams to standardize telemetry and monitoring practices.
  • Use AWS native services (MSK, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) to deliver robust solutions.
  • Design and enforce secure networking and firewall architectures (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NACLs, load balancers, private endpoints).
  • Write production-quality code and tests in at least one major language (Python, Java, Go, or Node.js). Own CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
  • Drive projects end-to-end: translate product requirements, create execution plans, identify risks, and coordinate across product, security, infra, and operations teams.
  • Mentor engineers, run design reviews, and improve team practices around reliability, scalability, and operability.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring:

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, partitioning, replication, consistency models, leader election, backpressure, and fault tolerance.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating highly available, highly scalable production systems.
  • Deep knowledge of observability: metrics, tracing, logging formats specially OpenTelemetry , alerting, and SLO/SLI design.
  • Experience implementing application instrumentation libraries and sidecars; familiarity with sampling, tagging, and context propagation.
  • Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, load balancing, NAT, DNS, VPC design, security groups, firewalls, and TLS.
  • Proven experience building solutions using AWS native services (design patterns and tradeoffs).
  • Experience designing and building real-time/high-speed streaming pipelines capable of processing large volumes of data; familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar.
  • Hands-on coding: able to implement, debug, and ship production code; strong test discipline and experience with CI/CD.
  • Experience with building containerized applications using Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to drive projects with product managers and stakeholders.

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with observability platforms like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or Splunk.
  • Background in performance tuning, JVM internals, or low-latency systems.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Experience building multi-region or global systems.


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