Wells Fargo Principal Engineer 

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 

754405505

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Ensure high availability and performance of production systems through proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Design and implement scalability, reliability, and observability strategies for cloud and on-premise environments.
• Define SLIs (Service Level Indicators), SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and Error Budgets to improve system reliability.
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of experience leading observability and monitoring tooling
• 7+ years in infrastructure (windows and Linux) support
• 5+ years proven success in toil reduction initiatives
• 5+ years in cloud application management

Desired Qualifications:

• Focused on risk mitigation in Cash Vault and Check Processing environments
• Strong understanding of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model
• Ability to troubleshoot the network stack, operating system stack and middleware
• Deep understand of java applications including how to read a thread dump and use of java flight recorder
• Knowledge and understanding of AI capabilities
• Ability to quickly script for new alarms and execute according to company approved alerting tools
• Ability to dynamically engage and attend high impact production incidents and troubleshoot to resolution and provide immediate incident analysis both written and spoken.
• Has set up distributed tracing across an internet topology for full health check and with the ability to pinpoint problem source.
• Mentor the platform teams by training, documenting, certifying and building the teams skill set.
• Demonstrateknowledge/understandingof emerging technologies, industry trends, and outside perspectives, and communicate relevance to the organizations strategic and tactical goals
• Lead proof of concepts and prototyping
• Lead execution of critical/complex project deliverables.
• Strong communication with the ability to communicate on all levels of the organization

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Pay Range Iseline, New Jersey - (144,000-300,000k)

Pay Range

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

17 Jul 2025

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.