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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Fidelity

Location

Durham, NC

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/9/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.4% approval-62% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will deploy and support distributed systems at scale, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. This role focuses on building resilient platforms in AWS and implementing observability practices to monitor system health. The engineer will also automate operational workflows and support CI/CD processes. The position requires collaboration with senior leadership and mentoring junior engineers to enhance system resilience.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology Management, Information Systems Security, Business Administration, or a closely related field and five years of experience as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer.
  • Alternatively, a Master's degree in a related field and three years of experience as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer.
  • Demonstrated expertise in software performance benchmarking and engineering for online financial web applications.
  • Experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead enterprise-level reliability strategies.
  • Architect resilient systems and infrastructure.
  • Create and publish performance test results reports with recommendations on quality improvement.
  • Maintain scalability and resiliency of complex environments.
  • Implement advanced observability practices and techniques at scale.
  • Manage and interpret large datasets using query languages and visualization tools.
  • Advise senior leadership on reliability engineering best practices.
  • Mentor junior engineers.
  • Perform independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple divisional initiatives.
  • Develop innovative solutions to improve system availability, scalability, and performance.

Benefits

  • Fidelity offers competitive compensation, annual bonuses, retirement contributions, comprehensive healthcare coverage, parental leave, tuition assistance, wellness programs, and extensive professional development opportunities.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Fidelity Technology Group Llc D B A Fidelity Investments

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

64

FY2026

Approval rate

99.4%

FY2026

LCA certified

1,080

FY2026

Entry-level share

1.5%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-62%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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