Enterprise Observability - Lead Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead the ingestion, transformation, and standardization of enterprise telemetry data into the firm’s centralized data lake.

This role is critical to enabling high-quality observability data (logs, metrics, traces, events) to support real-time monitoring, advanced analytics, and machine learning use cases such as anomaly detection and predictive insights. The engineer will work at the intersection of observability, data engineering, and platform abstraction, ensuring telemetry data is reliable, normalized, and consumable at scale across the enterprise. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in observability tools, telemetry pipelines, and cloud data platforms with experience enabling ML-driven use cases.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs

• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ 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 with OpenTelemetry (instrumentation and collectors)

• Experience integrating observability pipelines with data lakes and analytics platforms

• Familiarity with machine learning use cases such as anomaly detection, forecasting, and event correlation

• Experience working with streaming data frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, Flink, Spark Streaming)

• Knowledge of data abstraction and semantic layer design for enterprise consumption

• Experience with data quality frameworks and governance practices

• Understanding of SRE principles and how observability data supports reliability engineering

• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments with multiple lines of business

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• This position does not offer Visa sponsorship

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$119,000.00 - $224,000.00

Posting End Date:

23 Jun 2026

*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.

Applicants with Disabilities

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

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

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