Cloud Development Engineering Senior Principal

About the role

At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Responsibilities

• Build and migrate the cloud-native platform.
• Design stateless, horizontally scalable OCP services and move the estate incrementally toward full cloud adoption without a big-bang rewrite.
• Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation.
• Create disposable, reproducible, self-service environments that shorten testing cycles and turn constrained test capacity into an engineering capability.
• Engineer production resilience, observability, and cost discipline.
• Make systems diagnosable by design with actionable traces, metrics, SLIs, and cost controls across compute, storage, telemetry, and cloud consumption.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Qualifications

• Talents Needed For Success:
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems, with the majority of that experience being hands-on and current coding responsibilities.
  • Deep cloud-native development expertise, including containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, stateless service design, and resilience patterns applied appropriately — retry with backoff, circuit breaking, idempotency, graceful degradation, and safe rollback.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Java/Python with meaningful understanding of infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices — including Terraform, Helm, and pipeline design as core engineering responsibilities rather than ancillary scripting.
  • Proven distributed systems troubleshooting experience, demonstrated through specific production scenarios such as consumer lag and rebalance storms, partition skew, GC pauses and OOMKills, connection pool exhaustion, object-store throttling, and network partitions — including how these issues were diagnosed under time pressure.
  • Strong instrumentation discipline, including OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing across service boundaries, custom metrics, structured logging with correlation IDs, RED/USE methodology, and SLI/SLO definition.
  • Hands-on observability tooling depth across platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Splunk, with evidence of building the underlying signals rather than only consuming dashboards created by others.
  • Cloud cost engineering and FinOps experience, including rightsizing and autoscaling policy, spot and reserved capacity, storage lifecycle and tiering, egress awareness, Kafka retention economics, Snowflake warehouse sizing and auto-suspend, telemetry ingestion volume, tagging and showback discipline, and the ability to express cost per unit of work rather than only as a monthly total.
  • Streaming and data platform exposure, including Kafka operations, object storage, lakehouse table formats, and Snowflake.

Skills

• Fluency in regulated environments and the ability to influence without authority, including change control, disaster recovery obligations, audit evidence, secrets management, least privilege, and the ability to establish engineering standards across teams not directly managed.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension / Retirement benefits.
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Schedule

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Pay

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.