Observability Platform Engineering Lead

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Technical Lead responsible for core platform capabilities in Fidelity’s Enterprise Observability Platform. Leading architecture, collaboration with teams, and project execution across multiple domains.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeMerrimack • New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDNSDockerFirewallsTCP/IP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and services
Lead the architecture and build of high-throughput data streaming pipelines
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 to deliver robust solutions
Design and enforce secure networking and firewall architectures
Write production-quality code and tests in at least one major language
Own CI/CD pipelines and release automation
Drive projects end-to-end: translate product requirements, create execution plans, identify risks
Mentor engineers and improve team practices around reliability, scalability, and operability

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
Demonstrated experience designing and operating highly available, highly scalable production systems
Deep knowledge of observability: metrics, tracing, logging formats specially OpenTelemetry
Experience implementing application instrumentation libraries and sidecars
Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, load balancing, NAT, DNS, VPC design, security groups, firewalls, and TLS
Proven experience building solutions using AWS native services
Experience designing and building real-time/high-speed streaming pipelines
Hands-on coding: able to implement, debug, and ship production code
Experience with building containerized applications using Docker and container orchestration
Excellent written and verbal communication

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) plans
Paid time off
Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsdata streaming pipelinesobservabilityapplication instrumentationAWS native servicesproduction-quality codeCI/CD pipelinescontainerized applicationsOpenTelemetrynetworking

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproject managementrisk identification