Principal System Reliability Engineer

About this role :

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer. This Principal Engineer must be able to perform gap analysis of the application, implement resiliency, observability and operational automation. This person will adopt a System Reliability Engineering practice for both on-prem, hybrid, and native cloud applications. The Principal Engineer must have strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, provide expert advice, and upskill platform engineers. The Principal Engineer will be called to production outage calls and be expected to reduce the mean time to resolve by providing expert level troubleshooting skills.

In this role, you will :

• 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's best practices and new technologies and recommend 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
• Will own and drive alarming, monitoring, toile reduction and overall risk reduction in the Financial Hardship Operations, Consumer Lending Operations and Unsecure Lending Operations Space. Full experience with the OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection)

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Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

Posting End Date : 3 Sep 2025

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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