Principal Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in the Core Infrastructure Services (CIS) group, supporting cloud-native infrastructure, automation engineering, and scaling the "as code" and software-driven infrastructure engineering across the whole enterprise. These services are in support of the operability of all of Wells Fargo's digital products and services across the world.
This position is a technical leader and contributor for the Infrastucture Tooling Ecosystems functionality, requiring experience in software engineering, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, data modeling, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) development.
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Develop and implement company-wide best practices for engineering and technology solutions by leveraging industry standards and emerging technologies, while guiding the team to achieve deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team members, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, and serve as a peer mentor to engineers on the automation engineering teams
• Create applications and services that promote efficiency, high-scale reuse, and cost savings
• Knowledge of advanced workload identity federation authentication and authorization models at scale
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
• Play an individual contribution as well as a team leader role in delivering on the development of new features and functionality in integrating, implementing, and/or augmenting IBM Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise, Vault Enterprise, and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) platforms
• Expand upon developed and delivered products through cross-training/knowledge transfer to other software engineers, creating thorough documentation/other learning materials, and providing example user-specific application examples to the greater development community
• Production software development experience in a modern programming language such as C#, Java, C++, Golang, Rust

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 Software Development experience with architecting, designing and developing frontend and backend applications using modern software programming languages
• 7+ years of experience in developing software which utilizes either traditional relational databases or alternately non-relational databases
• 5+ years of experience in developing microservices which utilize cloud web services

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of leadership experience
• 5+ years of experience working in an agile environment
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to develop partnerships and collaborate with other business and functional areas
• Knowledge and understanding of application and web security
• Knowledge and understanding of technology performance: analysis, automated testing, and tuning for applications
• Knowledge of one or more major Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and their primary web service offerings
• Knowledge of automation tools and platforms (Terraform, Crossplane)
• Knowledge of systems engineering configuration management tools and techniques
• Knowledge of modern software development lifecycle processes and tooling (e.g. GitHub Enterprise, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery)
• Knowledge of cloud-native application orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes, Nomad)

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
• This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This role is not eligible for relocation assistance

Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$159,000.00 - $305,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
15 Mar 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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