Principal Engineer - Performance Testing

Wells Fargo•St. Louis, MO

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Wealth Investment Management Technology (WIMT) Platform Engineering team. The role will drive the transformation of Performance Engineering and improve engineering practices by optimizing processes, streamlining workflows, and developing new capabilities. It involves substantial collaboration with technical teams and oversight of performance testing deliverables and activities for large, highly complex programs. The Principal Engineer advises leadership on technology for complex business and technical needs; develops long-term solutions to enterprise challenges; and partners with application, infrastructure, cloud, and network teams to establish performance and resiliency standards. The role owns end-to-end performance engineering for critical platforms, identifies bottlenecks, and recommends tuning and architectural improvements. It also leads WIMT resiliency programs, including chaos, stress, load, failover, breakpoint, and disaster recovery testing. The position provides technical vision and guidance, works hands-on with Performance Engineers, collaborates with the CTO team to analyze results and troubleshoot latency, and creates reusable Splunk and AppDynamics patterns, queries, and configurations. It ensures systems operate efficiently and meet performance requirements, mentors engineers, and leads resolution of complex technical challenges. The position offers a hybrid work schedule, requires flexibility for on-call work beyond normal hours and additional hours as needed, and may require travel up to 10%. Visa sponsorship is available.

Requirements

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent experience demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination of these.
7+ years of executing and leading Performance Testing.
5+ years of using scripting languages to create performance-testing utilities or reusable components.
2+ years of experience working with observability rules.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of executing Performance Testing in data center migration programs.
5+ years of experience with LoadRunner and/or JMeter/BlazeMeter.
5+ years working with AppDynamics, Splunk, or Grafana.
Knowledge of network infrastructure, firewalls, and load balancers.
Knowledge of OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) or other cloud experience such as PCF.
Ability to interact with all levels of an organization.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Advise leadership on applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, and web technologies for complex business and technical needs.
Lead strategy and resolution of highly complex challenges across multiple areas or the enterprise, developing long-term, large-scale solutions.
Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, and network teams to establish performance and resiliency standards and provide guidance on architecture and operational readiness.
Lead resolution of complex production performance and stability challenges.
Own the design and execution of end-to-end performance engineering across critical platforms.
Diagnose application, infrastructure, network, and configuration bottlenecks and define tuning recommendations and architectural improvements.
Design and lead WIMT-wide resiliency programs, including chaos testing, stress testing, load testing, failover validation, breakpoint testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
Translate technology expertise and business and enterprise objectives into technical engineering solutions.
Provide vision, direction, and technical expertise to leadership and the team in implementing business solutions.
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and emerging technologies and recommend innovations.
Engage with professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
Work hands-on with Performance Engineers to create performance testing solutions.
Work with the CTO team to analyze results and debug latency challenges.
Create reusable Splunk and AppDynamics patterns, queries, and configurations for the Performance Engineering team.
Design, execute, and analyze performance tests to ensure systems and applications operate efficiently and meet performance requirements.
Guide and mentor engineers and provide technical direction.
Lead resolution of complex technical challenges through cross-functional collaboration and in-depth analysis.