This role pays less than
63%
of similar roles. Most pay
$180,468–$237,946
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$206k
versus about
$209k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services
Wells Fargo currently has
34 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$159,000–$254,000
across 17 roles with salary data.
Principal Engineer - Auto Finance Platform
The Principal Engineer joins the consumer technology team to support Auto Finance systems by improving reliability, reducing time to detect issues, and ensuring consistent data flow across critical customer engagement channels. This role involves driving the adoption of observability, automation, and Site Reliability Engineering practices while managing the full platform lifecycle, including instrumentation, monitoring design, incident response, and resilient data pipeline development. The candidate will serve as a technical advisor to leadership, solving complex challenges involving network, security, database, and operating system technologies. Required skills include experience with observability tools like Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, alongside expertise in Kubernetes and OpenShift. Additional preferred competencies include Java-based application performance monitoring, SQL proficiency across Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, and navigating data governance frameworks to maintain a stable, scalable ecosystem for automotive financing.
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