Principal Engineer
| Company | Wells Fargo |
|---|---|
| Location | Westlake, TX, USA, Iselin, Woodbridge Township, NJ, USA, Charlotte, NC, USA, Chandler, AZ, USA |
| Salary | $144400 – $300000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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 experience leading observability and monitoring tooling
- 7+ years in infrastructure (windows and Linux) support
- 5+ years proven success in toil reduction initiatives
- 5+ years in cloud application management
Responsibilities
- 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
- Ensure high availability and performance of production systems through proactive monitoring and incident response
- Design and implement scalability, reliability, and observability strategies for cloud and on-premise environments
- Define SLIs (Service Level Indicators), SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and Error Budgets to improve system reliability
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Focused on risk mitigation in Cash Vault and Check Processing environments
- Strong understanding of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model
- Ability to troubleshoot the network stack, operating system stack and middleware
- Deep understand of java applications including how to read a thread dump and use of java flight recorder
- Knowledge and understanding of AI capabilities
- Ability to quickly script for new alarms and execute according to company approved alerting tools
- Ability to dynamically engage and attend high impact production incidents and troubleshoot to resolution and provide immediate incident analysis both written and spoken
- Has set up distributed tracing across an internet topology for full health check and with the ability to pinpoint problem source
- Mentor the platform teams by training, documenting, certifying and building the teams skill set
- Demonstrate knowledge/understanding of emerging technologies, industry trends, and outside perspectives, and communicate relevance to the organizations strategic and tactical goals
- Lead proof of concepts and prototyping
- Lead execution of critical/complex project deliverables
- Strong communication with the ability to communicate on all levels of the organization