Wells Fargo

Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of Engineering experience or equivalent through work, training, military service, or education
  • 7+ years of experience with alarm scripting or alerting tools
  • 3+ years of experience with distributed tracing for full health checks

Responsibilities

  • Advise leadership on applications, security, and technologies to meet complex business needs
  • Lead strategy and resolution for complex challenges across multiple enterprise areas
  • Translate technological expertise into engineering solutions aligned with business objectives
  • Provide vision and direction for innovative business solutions
  • Recommend innovations based on industry best practices and new technologies
  • Engage and advise all levels of professionals and managers within the organization

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule available
  • Focus on professional development with opportunities for mentorship
  • Access to industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies
  • Opportunities to lead and present at industry conferences
  • Engagement in high-impact projects and incident resolution
  • Possibility of influencing technological strategy at the enterprise level
Full Job Description
About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Consumer Technology group. This Engineer will adopt an SRE organization through Observability, Automation and AI solutions and must have strong communication skills and the ability to mentor. You'll provide expert advice and upskill the platform engineers. A core responsibility will be expert handling of production outage calls and reducing the mean time to resolution by providing your highly developed troubleshooting skills.

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
  • 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 alarm scripting or alerting tool(s) experience
  • 3+ years of experience setting up distributed tracing across an internet topology for full health check and with the ability to pinpoint problem source


Desired Qualifications:
  • Deep understanding of the network stack, operating system stack and middleware to be utilized for troubleshooting production incidents
  • Experience with hands on development of spunk dashboards
  • Experienced troubleshooting Unix, Linux and cloud environments
  • Experience with Log analysis
  • Strong communication with the ability to communicate on all levels of the organization
  • Demonstrate knowledge/understanding of emerging technologies, industry trends, and outside perspectives, and communicate relevance to the organizations strategic and tactical goals
  • Lead proof of concepts and prototyping
  • Write and present white papers and present in industry conferences
  • Lead execution of critical/complex project deliverables
  • Experience with mentorship by training, documenting, certifying and building the teams skill set
  • Ability to dynamically engage and attend high impact production incidents and troubleshoot to resolution and provide immediate incident analysis both written and spoken


Job Expectations:
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule
  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position


Locations:
  • 401 W. Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, Texas
  • 300 S. Brevard St., Charlotte, North Carolina
  • 2600 S. Price Rd., Chandler, Arizona


Posting End Date:

2 Jul 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo Careers

Joining Wells Fargo means becoming part of a distinguished financial institution that has been a cornerstone of innovation and leadership in the banking industry. At Wells Fargo, we offer a plethora of job opportunities designed to empower your career growth and development in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Work You’ll Do

At Wells Fargo, you will be part of a team that values diversity and is committed to fostering an inclusive culture. We are looking for professionals who are eager to drive innovation and lead with integrity. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we invest in their professional growth through comprehensive leadership and diversity training programs that are recognized industry-wide.

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We believe in nurturing the potential of our employees. Wells Fargo offers robust training programs and resources to help every team member excel in their current roles and prepare for future challenges. Growth at Wells Fargo is not just about climbing the career ladder but expanding your skills and expertise to add value to our team and customers.

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