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versus about
$203k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Fiserv
Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, providing core banking platforms, payment processing, digital banking, and merchant acquiring solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments
Fiserv currently has
123 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$124,000–$201,000
across 92 roles with salary data.
The Principal Engineer, DNA Platforms defines the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical direction for critical platforms and services. Working across engineering, product, architecture, and business teams, this leader solves complex technical challenges to advance modernization, scalability, reliability, and security. Key responsibilities include defining the technical vision and long-term roadmap, leading solution designs for multi-team initiatives, and guiding platform engineering practices. The role involves designing scalable software platforms using distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architecture patterns while establishing standards for observability, performance, and CI/CD adoption. The position requires managing and coaching engineers across geographically distributed teams. The work focuses on platform modernization, cloud adoption, and developer productivity within the context of financial technology, banking, payments, risk, or fraud platforms.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $176000 from 237 postings across 52 companies.
Define the technical vision, long-term architecture, and engineering roadmap for DNA Platforms.
Lead solution design and technical decision-making for complex, multi-team initiatives.
Design scalable, secure, and resilient software platforms using distributed systems and cloud-native patterns.
Guide modernization efforts, platform engineering practices, and CI/CD adoption.
Establish engineering standards for software quality, observability, performance, reliability, and security.
Manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers across geographically distributed teams.
Lead technical forums, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing practices.
What we're looking for
12+ years of experience in software engineering, including architecture and delivery of large-scale enterprise platforms.
10+ years of experience designing distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, and modern software delivery practices.
8+ years of experience managing and developing teams in engineering, architecture, or platform technology functions.
8+ years of experience applying security, reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and maintainability principles to production systems.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of experience.
Experience in financial technology, banking, payments, risk, or fraud platforms (preferred).
Experience leading 2 or more initiatives such as platform modernization, cloud adoption, or developer productivity programs (preferred).
Experience working across geographically distributed engineering organizations with occasional travel up to 10% (preferred).
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
Distributed Systems
API Development
Service Oriented Architecture
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Workflow Orchestration
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud-native Systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Java
C++
C#
Go
RESTful APIs
Microservices
Distributed Systems
Containers
Cloud-native
Observability
SLOs
Middleware
SDKs
API Versioning
Data Structures
Algorithms