About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer. This role is aligned to modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and is responsible for driving reliability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across critical platform and application services. The role is intended for senior engineers with deep expertise in one core platform domain, applying that expertise to proactively improve platform stability, scalability, and availability.

In this role, you will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Systems Operations, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Production Support with deep expertise in at least one platform domain: Database, Cloud, Network, Compute/Storage, Middleware, or Enterprise Application Support
• Strong hands-on experience applying SRE practices, including SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
• Proven experience troubleshooting and resolving large-scale, distributed production systems.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell to reduce operational toil.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, or equivalent, including dashboards, alerting, logs, and metrics.
• Experience building automation or reliability tooling using APIs, Git-based workflows, and modern engineering practices.
• Solid understanding of incident, problem, and change management in enterprise production environments.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across engineering teams and senior leadership.
• Experience with capacity management, performance engineering, and resiliency design (HA, fault tolerance, RTO/RPO).
• Experience operating in hybrid environments (on‑prem + cloud) with complex enterprise dependencies.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation / IaC tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Ability to drive technical debt remediation for critical legacy platforms using structured backlogs.
• Experience mentoring or leading senior engineers in reliability, operations, or SRE-focused roles.

Posting End Date: 

*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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

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