22 hours ago
Pittsburgh, PA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$91k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend infrastructure supporting high availability and automated data-center failover.
- Architect and implement resiliency solutions for distributed systems, including failover and failback workflows.
- Develop and manage Ansible and Python automation for recovery operations.
- Lead disaster recovery testing and validate system resiliency and operational readiness.
- Build distributed task-processing workflows and backend services using technologies including Celery and FastAPI.
- Collaborate with architects and product owners on technical direction, requirements, planning, estimation, and delivery.
- Establish best practices for reliability, recovery, and continuity engineering.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, complex problem solving, documentation, and hands-on software development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required; a comparable combination of education, job-specific certifications, and experience, including military service, may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years of industry-relevant experience typically required for this level.
- Hands-on expertise with Ansible for infrastructure automation and failover orchestration.
- Strong Python experience building automation, services, and resiliency tooling.
- Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
- Experience with Celery, including asynchronous workflows, retries, and scheduling.
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, resiliency architectures, and graceful failure handling.
- Experience building APIs with FastAPI and familiarity with relational database access using SQLAlchemy or SQLModel.
- Experience operating at a senior or principal engineering level, owning work from design through implementation and validation, and collaborating with product owners, architects, and engineering peers.
- No required certifications or licenses.
Benefits
- Full-time eligible employees may receive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, life insurance, short- and long-term disability protection, 401(k) matching, pension and stock purchase plans, dependent care reimbursement, backup child/elder care, adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement, educational assistance, and wellness programs.
- Paid time off may include parental leave, up to 11 paid holidays, 9 occasional absence days, and 15 to 25 vacation days depending on career level and eligibility.
- This is an in-office role; available locations include Pittsburgh, Strongsville, Cleveland, Birmingham, Phoenix, Lakewood, and Dallas.
- The position is incentive eligible; the posting states that incentive payments may be based on company, business, and/or individual performance.
About PNC
PNC is a U.S. bank offering retail, business, and corporate banking, including checking, savings, credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, and wealth management. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across consumer, small-business, and institutional clients, and provides digital and branch services nationwide. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, it is a public company listed on the NYSE.