Lead Software Engineer – Application Performance Engineering & Resiliency

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Application Performance Engineering & Resiliency to lead performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency initiatives for business-critical, cloud-native applications. This role combines hands-on software engineering expertise with technical leadership across distributed systems built on Java, Kubernetes/OpenShift, microservices, APIs, messaging platforms, and modern cloud technologies.

As a trusted technical leader, you will partner with engineering, architecture, platform, and SRE teams to ensure applications are designed, tested, and validated for performance, resilience, and operational excellence. You will drive performance-by-design practices, lead resiliency validation efforts, and establish engineering standards that enable highly scalable and reliable systems supporting millions of transactions in a regulated, high-availability environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex scalability challenges, influencing enterprise architecture decisions, and driving continuous improvements in reliability and engineering excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Lead performance engineering and resiliency initiatives across large-scale, distributed application ecosystems.

• Define and implement performance, scalability, reliability, and observability standards for cloud-native platforms.

• Partner with development teams to embed performance and resiliency requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Design and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, failover, and resiliency testing strategies.

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, JVMs, APIs, Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, databases, messaging systems, and infrastructure.

• Drive capacity planning, workload modeling, and predictive scaling strategies to support future business growth.

• Lead resiliency validation efforts through chaos engineering, fault-injection testing, disaster recovery validation, and high-availability assessments.

• Establish and govern Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and production readiness criteria.

• Advance observability practices through monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and performance analytics.

• Integrate automated performance and resiliency validation into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.

• Serve as a technical advisor and mentor, helping engineering teams adopt modern performance engineering and SRE best practices.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, operations, and vendor organizations to deliver reliable, high-performing solutions.

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

• 5+ years of significant experience in performance engineering, reliability engineering, or platform engineering.

• 5+ years of strong hands-on experience developing and supporting enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and API-based architectures.

• 3+ years of experience with containerized applications running on Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar cloud-native platforms.

• 3+ years of experience troubleshooting production container workloads with deep expertise in JVM and/or CoreCLR diagnostics, including container memory limits, thread dumps, and automated heap dumps.

• 3+ years of strong experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, OTEL, or similar tools.

• 3+ years of experience working with messaging technologies such as Kafka and enterprise databases (RDBMS and/or NoSQL).

• 3+ years of experience integrating testing and validation into CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps workflows (Harness EPLx or similar tools).

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with functional testing, browser performance analysis (HAR files), and automation frameworks such as Playwright or Selenium is highly desirable.

• Knowledge of SRE principles, production operations, resiliency testing, and chaos engineering practices.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across multiple teams.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated, mission-critical environments is preferred

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship or transfer of visa

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Locations :

• 2600, S Price Rd. Building B, Chandler, AZ

• 550 S 4th St., Minneapolis, MN

• 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, NC

• 800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy, West Des Moines, IA

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.

For above posted locations - 119,000.00 - 187,000.00 USD Annual

Benefits:

• Information about Wells Fargo's US employee benefits

• Information about Wells Fargo's International employee benefits

Posting End Date:

31 Jul 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

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.

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.