Platform Engineering Principal Engineer

At Fannie Mae the inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of a collaborative team thriving in an energizing environment. Here you will grow your career and help create access toaffordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team you will design and develop unprecedented solutions for information technology (IT) infrastructure environments in solving complex or unusual business problems across several projects programs or products. This work includes coding testing and certifying technology platforms software and applications.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Platform Engineering Principal Engineer role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Apply your extensive knowledge of principles and advanced techniques to develop solutions for application design and IT infrastructure components.
• Understand the end-to-end performance of IT platforms.
• Establish and maintain policies guidelines and standard operating procedures.
• Monitor performance and capacity metrics for technology solutions while identifying and developing plans to address long term trends or issues.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 8 years

Skills

• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs outputs and process
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Influencing including negotiating persuading others facilitating meetings and resolving conflict
• Programming including coding debugging and using relevant programming languages
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options and identifying resources to meet the defined objectives
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
• Skilled in establishing and maintaining consistency of a products performance functional and physical attributes with its requirements design and operational information
• Experience monitoring and managing operation systems (OS) and staying current on patches upgrades and other elements of the OS
• Communication including communicating in writing or verbally copywriting planning and distributing communication etc.
• Product Development including designing products developing product roadmaps translating design requirements prototyping etc.

Tools

• Skilled in using UNIX
• Experience using APIs for developing or programming software
• Skilled in Java
• Skilled in using REST API
• Skilled in Python object-oriented programming

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive alignment as in Individual Contributor.
• Deep understanding of platform architecture scalability reliability and security.
• Experience designing and building Internal Developer Platforms that abstract infrastructure and streamline developer workflows.
• CI/CD pipeline design and optimization. E.g. Gitlab
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform Pulumi or AWS CloudFormation.
• Container orchestration platform(e.g. Kubernetes ECS)
• Networking load balancing and service mesh (e.g. Istio Linkerd).
• Focus on simplifying developer onboarding tooling and workflows.
• Building self-service capabilities (e.g. golden paths templates service catalogs).
• Strong coding skills in languages like Go Python or Java.
• API design and integration.
• Understanding of microservices and distributed systems.

$196000.00-264000.00 a year

Enterprise Platforms - Technology Engineering - Principal

Qualifications

Education:

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at most roles employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office -office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

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The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health Life Voluntary Lifestyle and other benefits and perks that enhance an employees physical mental emotional and financial well-being. See more here.

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