Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer - Observability Events Management

Wells Fargo

Location:
United States , Iselin ▼
Charlotte
Irving

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

159000.00 - 305000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in Technology as part of our CTO organization. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com. Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to play a key role in driving technology‑led innovation at enterprise scale. This role will help transform Telemetry, Monitoring, and Observability across on‑premises platforms as well as private and public cloud environments. Our vision is to deliver best‑in‑class observability capabilities that provide consumer‑grade insights at a competitive cost by leveraging open‑source technologies and open standards. Through this modernization, we aim to reduce the cost of failure, improve platform availability, and optimize software engineering capacity across the enterprise.

Job Responsibility:

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

Requirements:

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
3+ years of experience with distributed streaming and event driven architectures, using technologies such as Kafka
3+ years of experience in database design and data architecture, including relational and/or NoSQL systems, data modeling, and high throughput data access patterns
7+ years of programming experience in Java, C# and/or Python, building scalable, production grade backend systems and APIs

Nice to have:

AIOps expertise spanning alert ingestion, correlation, enrichment, and AI‑driven incident analysis within large‑scale enterprise observability platforms
Experience in AI/ML technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, model integration, or applied machine learning in production environments
Experience designing and integrating APIs and microservices, including REST/gRPC services and service orchestration patterns
Knowledge of API security, OAuth, authentication/authorization platforms, and reverse proxy or gateway patterns
Experience working with cloud native platforms like OCP, including containerization, distributed systems, and scalable deployment models
Experience incident & problem management, technology change management and performance testing and tuning
Experience with system design and architecture for high scale applications, including performance optimization, fault tolerance, and resiliency
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Ability to influence and build relationships with LOB stakeholders, technology leadership, external service providers, and architecture teams
Experience of modern software development lifecycle, including TDD, CI/CD, Pairing, Build Automations, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Chaos Engineering
Knowledge of Agile methodologies, and product operating model
Knowledge and understanding of application or software security: web application penetration testing, secure code review, secure static code analysis
Knowledge and understanding of technology architecture: solutions development
Knowledge and understanding of complex enterprise systems and frameworks including frontends, middleware, services layer, database, backend, and downstream interfaces

What we offer:

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 25, 2026

Expiration:
April 26, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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