Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – SRE

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About the role

  • Principal Software Engineer at FIS driving reliability and performance in fintech environments. Collaborating across teams for high-scale, high-reliability solutions in the finance sector.

Responsibilities

  • Define meaningful SLIs, SLOs for owned services; tracks error budgets and burn rates
  • Advanced scripting, CI/CD, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Forecasts capacity for owned services; plans for growth
  • Automates recurring workflows; maintains CI/CD pipelines
  • Owns on-call for services; troubleshoots incidents independently
  • Writes blameless postmortems; tracks follow-up actions
  • Decision-making, conflict resolution, mentoring juniors
  • Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to align on reliability goals and incident response processes
  • Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization
  • Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices and ensure compliance
  • Manage deployment pipelines and configuration management for consistent and reliable app deployments

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in SRE, Software engineering and architecture in public cloud environments
  • Strong Knowledge in Performance Monitoring Tools like Dynatrace, Splunk and ability to create Dashboards, Views and Alerts
  • Pattern Analysis and Correlation skillset
  • Experience in middleware and ancillary technologies as per business need
  • Experience with relational databases, and/or NoSQL databases
  • Experience in SDLC and Agile Methodologies (Code Reviews, automated test cases etc)
  • Experience in Capacity Planning and Demand Forecasting
  • Programming Skills and SRE Foundation Knowledge in OS, Network, Middleware, Database, SSL, Load Balancer
  • Must have knowledge in scripting language (Unix Shell, Windows Scripting, Python, Java, .NET…)
  • Knowledge in DevOPS (CI/CD), Perf Engg. will be nice to have for SRE role
  • To have knowledge in End-to-End Application Topology
  • Knowledge in Cloud and Container Technologies
  • Hands on with at least one of (Unix/Windows Scripting, Python, Java, C++, C#)
  • Ability to Automate repetitive tasks - (Scripting, RPA, Power Automate, UiPath etc.)
  • Ability to implement AI models in Problem Solving and reduce MTTR
  • Strong Experience in Development and Implementation of Monitoring Tools like Dynatrace, Splunk
  • Ability to identify and eliminate TOILs
  • Knowledge in DevOPS (CI/CD) and relevant tools (e.g. Jenkins)
  • Knowledge of configuration management systems like Ansible, Chef or Puppet
  • Strong Problem-Solving Skills
  • Engineering Mindset with End to End view and provide solutions
  • Passion for problem solving with strong analytical capabilities
  • Strong and Assertive Communication
  • Good Leadership skills
  • To be more proactive than reactive
  • Passion for Continuous Improvement
  • Experience in Fintech working in Fintech Companies with rich Domain Experience
  • Experience with Virtualization / Containerization in a production environment (e.g. Nomad, Mesos, Kubernetes, etc.)

Benefits

  • Opportunities to innovate in fintech
  • Tools for personal and professional growth
  • Inclusive and diverse work environment
  • Resources to invest in your community
  • Competitive salary and benefits

Job title

Principal Software Engineer – SRE

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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