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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 processWorking with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goalInfluencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflictProgramming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languagesExperience identifying and selecting strategic options, and identifying resources to meet the defined objectivesSkilled in cloud technologies and cloud computingSkilled in establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational informationExperience monitoring and managing operation systems (OS), and staying current on patches, upgrades, and other elements of the OSCommunication 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 UNIXExperience using APIs for developing or programming softwareSkilled in JavaSkilled in using REST APISkilled in Python object-oriented programming

Desired Experiences

Bachelor degree or equivalentAbility 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. GitlabInfrastructure 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.

$196,000.00-264,000.00 a year

Enterprise Platforms - Technology Engineering - Principal

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-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 employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

Requisition compensation:

196000

to

264000