Software Engineer - QA Services (Remote)

Zions Bancorporation•Midvale, UT

1d•Remote

About The Position

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations team is seeking a Software Engineer for its QA Services team. The role focuses on improving application performance, scalability, and reliability across online and batch processing platforms, with approximately 40% devoted to Performance Engineering and 60% to Application Performance Tuning and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The position may be performed 100% remotely within the United States or on a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office for employees located within 50 miles of the Zions Technology Center in Midvale, Utah. The technology center is a 400,000-square-foot campus with features including electric vehicle charging stations, access to public transit and outdoor recreation, a modern café, natural light and fresh air, and a LEED-certified sustainable building. At least 75% of the building is powered by on-site renewable solar energy. The stated pay range is $110,000–$145,000. The position is not currently eligible for employment visa sponsorship. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance starting on day one; life and disability insurance; paid parental leave and adoption assistance; health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts; paid training; paid time off and 11 paid federal holidays; a 401(k) plan with company match; profit sharing; mental health coaching and therapy; tuition reimbursement for qualifying employees; and preferred banking products.

Requirements

Strong experience with performance testing tools such as Apache JMeter or LoadRunner.
4–5+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline; a combination of education and experience may meet qualifications.
Experience analyzing performance of REST APIs, SOAP services, event-driven systems, microservices, and batch-processing applications.
Strong proficiency in Java, Python, C#, or similar programming languages.
Strong SQL and database performance-tuning experience.
Knowledge of Linux, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and monitoring/observability tools.
Strong troubleshooting, performance analysis, and problem-solving skills, including experience with CPU bottlenecks, memory leaks, thread contention, garbage-collection issues, database performance problems, and network latency.
Experience in application performance tuning, reliability engineering, or SRE practices.
Knowledge of distributed systems and modern application architecture.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
Experience with Google Cloud.
Experience implementing SLI/SLO/error-budget frameworks.
Experience supporting high-volume enterprise banking or financial systems.

Responsibilities

Design and execute load, stress, scalability, and endurance tests using JMeter or LoadRunner.
Analyze application, API, database, and batch-processing performance under load.
Identify performance bottlenecks across application, infrastructure, and database layers and recommend improvements and optimization.
Monitor system health, reliability, and performance using observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, or similar tools.
Drive root cause analysis, performance tuning, and resiliency improvements.
Integrate performance testing and monitoring into CI/CD pipelines.
Partner with development and platform teams to ensure applications meet performance, availability, and scalability goals.