Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo21 hours ago
Base Salary
$191k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical vision, direction, and architecture guidance to enterprise leaders and engineering teams.
- Develop architecture artifacts including reference architectures, white papers, product strategies, and roadmaps.
- Design and implement cloud networking and connectivity, including VPCs, segmentation, routing, and hybrid connectivity.
- Engineer enterprise traffic management solutions using AVI, F5, Global Traffic Manager, and Akamai security integrations.
- Support cloud migration and modernization programs with secure and compliant connectivity patterns.
- Troubleshoot complex cross-domain infrastructure issues and influence enterprise-wide solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while establishing engineering standards and architectural patterns.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and architectures, containerization, distributed systems, and scalable deployment models.
- 5+ years of database design and data architecture experience with relational and/or NoSQL systems, data modeling, and high-throughput data access patterns.
- 5+ years of system design and architecture experience for high-scale applications, including performance optimization, fault tolerance, and resiliency.
- 3+ years of experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Flink, or similar technologies.
- 3+ years of experience addressing security, data privacy, and governance in regulated enterprise environments.
- 2+ years of experience implementing enterprise automation with Ansible, Harness CD, GitHub Actions, and Playwright.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with mission-critical applications, API security, OAuth, authentication and authorization platforms, reverse proxies, API gateways, edge platforms, and conversational systems.
- Preferred qualifications include strong knowledge of network, compute, and storage domains; cloud certifications; and familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, prompt engineering, vector databases, and orchestration tools.
- Ability to influence without direct authority and collaborate across platform, application, security, and infrastructure teams.
Benefits
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave, critical caregiving leave, commuter benefits, discounts and savings, tuition reimbursement, dependent-child scholarships, and adoption reimbursement.
- Base pay range of $191,000.00-$305,000.00, with potential eligibility for incentive opportunities.
- Posting end date is 1 Oct 2026; the posting may close early based on applicant volume.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.