Principal Application Engineer SRE

Discover. A brighter future.

With us youll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the worlds leading digital banking and payments value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What Youll Do

Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look. Typically does the tough parts e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.

How Youll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze design code test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains including programming languages security automation testing and business domains. As a result is the goto person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
• Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain designthinking agile software development way of working security architecture and/or data engineering.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimumheres what we need from you:

• Bachelors Computer Science Engineering Informatics Information Security Information Technology or related
• 6 Years Information Technology (Software) Engineering or related
• Internal applicants only: technicalproficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal state and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
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• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer telephone printer and calculator.

Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:

Technical Skills:

• Programming & Automation Strong coding in Python and Java with automation experience.
• Strong Linux Expertise Deep knowledge of RHEL Linux including performance optimization and troubleshooting in production environment
• Experience with SAN NAS NFS and objectoriented solutions for lowlatency applications
• Distributed Data System like Hadoop Apache Kafka/Nifi for real time steaming ingestion and processing
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Expertise in Terraform or Ansible to ensure compliancedriven deployments.
• Cloud & Hybrid Environments Deep understanding of AWS and onprem infrastructure prefer AWS Solution architect Certification
• Kubernetes & Containers Experience with Kubernetes Docker OpenShift for container orchestration in regulated environments.
• CI/CD with Compliance Strong grasp of Jenkins GitLab CI/CD with controls for change management.
• Observability & Monitoring Expertise in Splunk Datadog ensuring realtime fraud/anomaly detection.
• Incident Response & Resilience Proven ability to lead incident resolution postmortems (PIR) and disaster recovery (BCP/DR).
• Performance Optimization Experience with lowlatency highthroughput systems critical Debit/Credit Card payments.
• Database & Storage Expertise in SQL (Oracle PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB Cassandra) with strong consistency requirements.
• Security & Compliance Strong grasp of encryption Identity & Access Management IAM firewalls and other tools.

Compliance Skills

• Regulatory Compliance Familiarity with SOX PCI DSS FFIEC and other financial regulations.
• Risk Management Experience working with SOC 2 ISO 27001 NIST frameworks.
• Audit & Logging Implementing audit trails logging policies and realtime security event monitoring.
• Data Protection & Governance Ensuring encryption at rest/in transit data retention policies and GDPR compliance.
• Disaster Recovery & High Availability Experience with multiregion failover activeactive architectures and BCP testing.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

• Incident Command Leadership Ability to lead realtime financial outages minimizing downtime.
• Stakeholder Communication Work with compliance risk security and business teams to align SRE strategies.
• SLA/SLO Management Defining SLOs for transaction processing market data feeds and payment networks.
• Cost & Risk Optimization Driving cost efficiency in cloud & infrastructure while ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Process Automation & Efficiency Driving selfhealing infrastructure reducing operational toil and enforcing compliance through automation.
• Lead Tech for a product area collaborate with engineering product and other teams to align team goals with business priority

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis.

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Application Deadline:

Compensation:

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical Dental Vision & Health Savings Account

• Short and Long Term Disability Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our deliver on our promises to our customers each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability protected veteran status or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights)

Discover complies with federal state and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position to complete an application and/or to participate in an interview please email .Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.

At Discover we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace through our Fair Chance Hiring practices. Fair Chance Hiring means that we base our hiring decisions on an applicants qualifications rather than their criminal record. All our positions are subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Our applicants go through a background check and we follow all applicable local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance LA County Fair Chance.

Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.