Job Title – Principal Engineer The Purpose of This Role

As a Release engineer, you are responsible for driving successful planning, coordination, and delivery of releases across multiple technology platforms. This role works closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, and Operations teams to ensure predictable, high‑quality releases while fostering transparent, data‑driven decision making.

The release engineer will play a critical role in establishing and continuously improving release readiness, quality standards, and operational excellence, with a robust emphasis on cloud‑native delivery and AWS best practices. You will drive improvements to the release process over time, should drive automation, reduce risk and effort on releases over time, ensuring the right metrics and reporting is put in place. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and optimize cloud strategies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.

Your role will also involve coordination with multiple teams, promoting best practices, and staying abreast of emerging technologies to maintain our competitive edge.

The Value You Deliver

Value You Deliver

As a release engineer, you will be accountable for how and when the platform releases, not what features are built.

The role focuses on

Release predictability

Readiness and quality

Cross team coordination

Transparent, data driven decision making

Release automation and risk reduction The Core responsibilities for this role

Release Planning & Predictability

Owns and maintains the platform release calendar

Drives releases across multiple platforms

Defines and communicates release milestones (code freeze, test complete, release date)

Ensures release dates are explicit, visible, and realistic

Manages late scope changes and clearly communicates impact

Ensure relevant metrics and reporting mechanisms are in place for every release

Release Readiness & Quality





Defines and enforces release‑level readiness criteria, including:

Testing completeness (automated and manual where applicable)

Security and compliance checks

Documentation and consumer‑facing communication

Continuously assesses readiness across all participating teams

Drives improvements of the release process, should focus on automation and reducing risk and effort

Identifies risks early and drives mitigation while there is still time to act

Go / No‑Go Signal

Leads structured release readiness reviews

Presents objective readiness signals based on data and recommends go-nogo to leadership

Escalates unresolved risks with context and recommended actions

Cross‑Team Coordination

Acts as the single coordination point across:

Platform development squads

Platform management & infrastructure teams

Security, compliance, and operations

Makes dependencies and assumptions visible

Reduces late surprises caused by misalignment or unclear ownership

Aligns functional releases with platform management activities

Owns the Production Release Assessment (PRA) process where applicable

Communication & Transparency

Ensures consistent release communication to:

Platform customers (producer and consumer app teams)

Support and operations teams

Platform leadership

Publishes concise release summaries covering:

Included capabilities

Known risks or limitations

Consumer impact (especially breaking or behavior‑changing changes)

Continuous Improvement

Captures release learnings and recurring patterns

Tracks release health indicators





Late scope changes

Release date slippage

Post‑release defects or incidents

Drives improvements to the release process over time

Technical

Cloud Experience: Working knowledge in AWS and various services such as EKS, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Route 53, Lambda, PostgreSQL etc.

Kubernetes Experience: Knowledge in designing scalable and robust systems on Kubernetes, preferably EKS.

DevOps Knowledge: Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, and other DevOps practices

API Development: Knowledgeable of API development, lifecycle management, and gateways like APIGEE or Envoy is nice to have.

System Design: Knowledge of design of Tier 0 systems and platforms

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

FAE domain is the part of Enterprise Technology with the focus on Engineering and architecture. We enable Fidelity business units to safely and securely adapt to cloud at scale. The cross-enterprise collaboration enables the delivery of solutions that meet the emerging digital expectations of Fidelity’s customers and clients.

The Expertise

We’re Looking For

12+ years of IT experience

Graduate

Certifications if any

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Headquartered in Boston, US, Fidelity's goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. Privately held for nearly 70 years, Fidelity employs 45,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers.

FMR (Fidelity Management & Research) India is the Global Inhouse Center of Fidelity Investments. Headquartered at Bangalore, where operations commenced in 2003, FMR India has another fully-functional unit at Chennai.

To know more visit : FMR India

Location : Bangalore - EGL / Chennai

Certifications

Category

Information Technology

📌 Principal Software Engineer - Release Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Fidelity Investments
📍 Bengaluru