About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a principal engineer.
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
- 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
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
Platform Ownership & Stewardship
- Own the end‑to‑end health, stability, scalability, and resiliency of the Apigee Gateway platform across environments.
- Anticipate and proactively address platform risks related to capacity, performance, security, and availability.
- Ensure platform readiness for new consumers, migrations, and emerging workloads, including AI‑driven and high‑throughput use cases.
Technical Leadership Beyond L2
- Provide senior‑level technical leadership for complex Apigee L2/L3 issues while driving long‑term corrective and preventive solutions.
- Transition the operating model from reactive issue resolution to proactive platform engineering.
- Reduce single‑point dependencies through design, automation, and knowledge sharing.
Cross‑Team & Cross‑LOB Collaboration
- Act as a single‑threaded owner for Apigee Gateway–related discussions across lines of business and regions.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, SRE, infrastructure, security, and AI platform teams to ensure alignment and execution.
- Represent the API Gateway platform in cross‑organizational forums, reviews, and escalation paths.
Standards, Guardrails & Engineering Excellence
- Define, document, and enforce platform standards, patterns, and best practices for Apigee usage.
- Ensure consistent implementation of security, traffic management, and non‑functional requirements.
- Influence design and architecture reviews with a platform‑first and future‑ready mindset.
AI Enablement & Platform Readiness
- Enable the Apigee platform to support AI‑driven integrations, services, and workloads through appropriate API design, security, and governance.
- Partner with AI/ML platform teams to ensure APIs are optimized for AI consumption patterns (e.g., latency, throughput, observability, cost controls).
- Apply AI‑assisted tools and techniques (e.g., AI‑driven observability, diagnostics, automation, or developer productivity tools) to improve platform reliability and efficiency.
- Provide guidance on secure exposure and consumption of AI services via APIs, including policy enforcement and risk considerations.
Creativity, Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Apply original thinking to simplify complexity, reduce operational toil, and improve developer and operator experience.
- Identify and implement automation opportunities across monitoring, diagnostics, deployment, and validation.
- Challenge inefficient processes and legacy assumptions with scalable, forward‑looking alternatives.
Coaching, Mentoring & Capability Building
- Mentor engineers and technical leads toward stronger platform and systems‑level thinking.
- Coach teams on Apigee internals, debugging techniques, API design, and emerging patterns (including AI‑related use cases).
- Ensure recurring issues, workarounds, and learnings are documented and broadly shared.
Risk Management & Escalation
- Proactively identify cross‑team dependencies, constraints, and risks that could impact delivery or platform stability.
- Ensure timely and appropriate escalation with clear mitigation plans.
- Drive transparency and predictability in platform‑level communication.
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
- Deep hands‑on experience with API Gateway technologies, with strong expertise in Apigee (Hybrid & OPDK).
- Experience operating and scaling enterprise platforms in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, security policies, traffic management, and non‑functional requirements.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML platforms, AI‑enabled services, or AI‑assisted engineering tools, with experience supporting or integrating such capabilities via APIs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience working in large, matrixed organizations with global teams.
Job Expectations:
- Experience enabling API platforms for AI‑driven workloads or integrations.
- Familiarity with AI‑assisted observability, automation, or developer productivity tools.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers or acting in a recognized technical leadership role.
- Strong understanding of SRE practices, observability, and automation frameworks.
Leadership Expectations:
- Acts as a role model for technical excellence, professionalism, and accountability.
- Operates with an enterprise mindset—prioritizing platform health over localized optimizations.
- Brings clarity, originality, and forward‑thinking to complex technical challenges.
- Enables teams by reducing ambiguity and increasing confidence in the platform’s ability to support future needs, including AI‑driven capabilities.
Posting End Date:
23 Apr 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
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b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.