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Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Mar 2026
💰 $305,000/yr

About the role

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

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