Principal Platform Engineer

Fidelity • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Elumine, an early-stage generative AI startup within Fidelity Labs, is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to build new GenAI products for investment research. The role works across Data Science, Engineering, and Product to develop modern, scalable cloud infrastructure for deploying applications and to contribute to the architecture and engineering of application microservices. The engineer will help build AI-powered search, retrieval, and analytics capabilities, working closely with the Director of Engineering and cross-functional teams to drive technical decisions and deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of cloud engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps experience with AWS, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform, and CloudFormation, and scripting languages including TypeScript for CDK, Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security groups, VPCs, load balancers, and DNS management.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch, as well as incident management practices.
• Strong Linux system administration skills and containerization experience with ECS, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and work independently.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Python and FastAPI development.
• Prior experience developing generative AI applications.
• Prior experience in a startup or incubator environment building products from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage containerized applications using EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Design and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated application testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and security across environments using observability tools.
• Automate operational tasks, implement backup and disaster recovery procedures, and establish SLAs and SLOs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, incident response, and post-mortem analysis to drive continuous improvement.
• Contribute to engineering and development of application services based on FastAPI and Python.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support.
• Market-leading retirement benefits.
• Generous paid time off and parental leave.
• Charitable giving employee match program.
• Educational assistance, including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources for career development.
• Depending on position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may include bonus or other variable compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed