Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? 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.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.
Pay and 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.
- 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).
The Impact you will have in this role:We are seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer to join our Reliability Architecture team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of enterprise observability. This hands-on engineering role is designed for a candidate who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and is eager to influence architectural standards across the organization.
You will engineer prototype workloads that simulate real-world business applications, demonstrating how proposed resiliency and observability strategies and standards can be embedded into modern, cloud-native environments. Your work will directly support enterprise-wide adoption of our observability mandate and contribute to platform modernization and resiliency goals.
Primary Responsibilities: - Build and deploy prototype applications that showcase observability capabilities across hybrid environments (on-premises, AWS, Azure, SaaS).
- Conduct rigorous testing with simulated disruptions, environmental failures, and performance scenarios to validate proposed observability standards.
- Collaborate with platform teams, application owners, and external vendors to integrate observability into real workloads.
- Produce runbooks, configuration guides, architectural patterns, reusable dashboards, and findings to support enterprise enablement and scale.
- Provide feedback and technical insight to IT Architecture leadership and teams to influence enterprise strategy.
- Conduct technical evaluations of proposed standards for observability visualization, distributed tracing, enterprise logging, metrics operations, open standards adoption, event correlation, and alerting notification.
- Host sprint retrospectives and demos for engineering, business, and executive stakeholders to validate and promote adoption.
Qualifications: - Minimum of 8 years in distributed application design and implementation
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or equivalent experience
Talents needed for success: - 5+ years in enterprise Java technologies and open standards
- 5+ years in infrastructure, networking, middleware, and database architecture
- 5+ years in highly available architecture and disaster recovery
- 3+ years in containers and cloud-based solution delivery
- Strong troubleshooting and performance analysis skills
- CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks (e.g., Jenkins, Selenium)
- OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics generation, logging
- Chaos engineering tools (e.g., Gremlin, AWS FIS)
- AWS and Azure cloud environments
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration, hybrid deployments
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. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About UsWith over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .
DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.
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About the TeamServes as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.
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