Principal Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Role
The Workplace Investment Quality Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) is seeking a skilled individual contributor to support the resilience and observability of Workplace Investment (WI) applications across pre-production and non-production test environments. This role involves hands-on technical development and partnership, cross-functional collaboration, and a strong focus on proactive issue resolution and environmental stability. 

The successful candidate will drive monitoring initiatives across WI product lines—including Health Care (HC) and Stock Plan Services (SPS)—and work closely with development, engineering, and operations teams to identify and address root causes. This role also includes regular reporting to leadership and partnership with Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) to align monitoring practices with production standards. 

Required Qualifications and Experience 

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field  

• 9+ years of experience supporting and operating complex, largescale production environments  

• Deep technical expertise and extensive hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, and the ELK stack  

• Strong proficiency in distributed systems and technologies, including Java, Python, and cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure  

• Experience working with both batch processing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications  

• Proven hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling, including GitHub, Jenkins, Concourse, Ansible, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory, Sonar, Veracode, Kubernetes, and UDeploy  

• Practical experience with container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, and ECS 

Core Competencies & Leadership Skills 

• Collaborates effectively with operations teams and business stakeholders to improve stability, reliability, and performance  

• Supports operational readiness, incident response, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on root cause analysis  

• Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences  

• Engages stakeholders effectively, balancing technical constraints and business priorities  

• Designs, scales, and sustains automation initiatives across teams and environments  

• Breaks down complex initiatives into actionable work with clear business value  

• Self-directed pro