Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo
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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $169,662–$218,812 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $248k versus about $194k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 21 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $139,000–$239,000 across 10 roles with salary data.
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The Principal Engineer joins the Digital Infrastructure Services organization to lead the design, engineering, and architecture of modern, cloud-native infrastructure across hybrid, public cloud, and on-prem environments. This role focuses on platform engineering, Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud connectivity, security, automation, and traffic management to support application modernization and data center transformation. You will develop reference architectures, white papers, and product roadmaps while leading the architecture of cloud networking, VPC design, and enterprise-grade traffic management solutions using AVI, F5, Global Traffic Manager, and Akamai. Key technical requirements include experience with distributed streaming via Kafka or Flink, database design for NoSQL and relational systems, and automation tools like Ansible, Harness CD, GitHub Actions, and Playwright. You will solve complex infrastructure issues while ensuring secure, compliant connectivity patterns in a regulated environment involving high-scale, mission-critical applications.
What does a Engineer earn in California?
Median $209800 from 87 postings across 24 companies.
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