Principal Engineer - Blockchain

**About This Role** Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer. **In This Role, You Will** - Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups - Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking - Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions - Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions - Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization - Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership **Required Qualifications** - 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education **Desired Qualifications** - Build, Develop, Implement, and maintain core blockchain modules in Go using the Cosmos SDK, including a sophisticated, role-based token-factory for native asset issuance. - Design and implement custom logic within the ABCI++ interface (Prepare-Proposal/Process-Proposal) to enable advanced features and optimizations. - Configure, launch, and maintain our blockchain network, including genesis configuration, validator setup, and consensus parameter tuning. - Implement and manage cross-chain functionality using the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. - Write exhaustive Unit, Integration, and End-to-End tests to guarantee the security, correctness, and performance of the core protocol. - Participate in architectural discussions, conduct rigorous code reviews, and contribute to our high standards for technical documentation. - Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our development, test, and production environments. - Professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems. - Expert-level proficiency in Go. - Demonstrable, hands-on experience developing and maintaining custom modules for the Cosmos SDK. - Solid understanding of CometBFT consensus and the Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI/ABCI++). - Experience in launching or contributing to a Cosmos-based blockchain network. - Deeply committed to writing clear, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code. - Experience in cloud adoption of Blockchain applications including GCP (target platforms) or similar Blockchain frameworks - Good proficiency in RUST – Ability to understand, dissect and build services **Job Expectations** - Experience in development of enterprise scale banking applications will be a plus. - Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships. - Knowledge and understanding of Information Technology governance risk and compliance processes such as policies, control standards, risk management concepts, or information security. **Reference Number** R-516984