Job Description:
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‑l

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Fidelity Investments
📍 Bengaluru