Principal Engineer Infrastructure Engineer – Telemetry

Wells Fargo & Company•Irving, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Telemetry to provide enterprise-level technical leadership across applications, APIs, platforms, cloud, and infrastructure. The role defines technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards for telemetry capabilities that provide insight into technology performance, health, capacity, utilization, and operational trends. The engineer establishes scalable, reusable patterns for metrics, events, logs, traces, synthetics, dashboards, alerting, and instrumentation, helping teams turn technical data into actionable information. The role works across application, platform, infrastructure, OpenShift/Kubernetes, DevOps, and modernization teams, serving as a senior technical authority who influences engineering direction, architecture decisions, and adoption of enterprise telemetry capabilities. The position requires working in a hybrid environment from one of the posted locations. Visa sponsorship and relocation allowance are not available.

Requirements

7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Telemetry Engineering, Monitoring Engineering, or related experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
5+ years of experience with telemetry or monitoring technologies such as Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Elastic, or comparable technologies.
5+ years of experience designing or implementing dashboards, metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, instrumentation, or telemetry integrations.

Nice To Haves

Advanced experience with Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or related telemetry technologies.
Experience providing technical leadership for complex enterprise infrastructure, platform, or software engineering solutions.
Experience defining enterprise standards and architecture for Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces, and Synthetics (MELTS).
Experience designing telemetry pipelines, automated instrumentation, or telemetry-as-code capabilities.
Experience developing technical and leadership dashboards using multiple enterprise data sources.
Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, ARO, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, applications, APIs, or distributed systems.
Experience influencing technical strategy and architecture across multiple engineering teams or technology domains.
Experience delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions within a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

Define technical strategy and architecture for telemetry capabilities across applications, APIs, platforms, cloud, and infrastructure.
Establish enterprise engineering standards and reusable patterns for metrics, events, logs, traces, synthetics, instrumentation, dashboards, and alerting.
Architect and guide implementation of telemetry solutions using Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and related technologies.
Define approaches for dashboards and reporting that provide actionable insights for engineering teams and technology leadership.
Influence engineering organizations to adopt consistent telemetry, instrumentation, and integration patterns.
Establish approaches for correlating telemetry across applications, containers, infrastructure, networking, storage, APIs, and dependent services.
Drive automation of telemetry collection, instrumentation, dashboards, reporting, and integrations to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
Provide technical direction for complex, cross-platform telemetry designs, integrations, and engineering challenges.
Define meaningful technology KPIs for performance, capacity, utilization, adoption, and operational health.
Serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor, mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards, architectural decisions, and technology direction across teams.