Hybrid Principal Engineer

at Wells Fargo

• Job title: Principal Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $159,000 - $305,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Consul, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, Rust, Terraform, Vault, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, McLean, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer leading cloud-native infrastructure initiatives for Wells Fargo. Collaborating across teams to develop and implement scalable engineering solutions in a technology-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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)

Benefits

• 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