Sr Performance Test Engineer
About The Position
At Schwab Technology Services, the Senior Performance Engineer helps ensure the scalability, resiliency, and reliability of technology platforms supporting investing and financial planning experiences. The role works across multiple enterprise initiatives to define and execute performance engineering strategies that improve client experiences, strengthen operational stability, and support business growth. The engineer partners with product, architecture, development, infrastructure, and operations teams to identify performance risks, evaluate system behavior, and inform decisions. The role uses automation, observability, performance testing, and resilience engineering to address bottlenecks proactively, support release readiness, and influence outcomes across complex distributed systems. Success requires analytical thinking, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to connect technical insights to business impact. The selected candidate is expected to work on site in the specified location(s). The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of technology experience, including 7+ years in performance engineering, reliability engineering, or related disciplines.
- Proven experience leading performance engineering efforts across multiple enterprise programs, releases, or technology initiatives.
- 5+ years of experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, NeoLoad, WebLOAD, or similar platforms.
- 3+ years of experience integrating automated performance validation into CI/CD environments.
- Experience designing performance strategies, workload models, scalability assessments, and non-functional testing approaches for enterprise applications and distributed systems.
- Experience with resiliency testing, chaos engineering, failover validation, or fault-injection practices.
- Strong knowledge of observability and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, Shell, or similar.
- Experience working in Agile, DevOps, or product-based delivery environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and executive reporting skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with cloud-native and containerized platforms, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience using chaos engineering platforms such as Gremlin, LitmusChaos, Chaos Mesh, Azure Chaos Studio, or AWS Fault Injection Service.
- Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts, including service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Experience with behavior-driven development frameworks such as Cucumber, SpecFlow, JBehave, or similar.
- Financial services, banking, brokerage, trading, or high-volume transaction platform experience.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute performance engineering strategies across enterprise initiatives.
- Identify performance risks, evaluate system behavior, and drive data-informed decisions in partnership with product, architecture, development, infrastructure, and operations teams.
- Use automation, observability, performance testing, and resilience engineering practices to address bottlenecks proactively.
- Support release readiness and influence technology outcomes across complex distributed systems.
- Lead performance engineering efforts across multiple programs, releases, or technology initiatives.
- Design performance strategies, workload models, scalability assessments, and non-functional testing approaches.
- Apply resiliency testing, chaos engineering, failover validation, or fault-injection practices.
- Integrate automated performance validation into CI/CD environments.
- Communicate technical insights and provide stakeholder management, mentoring, and executive reporting.
Benefits
- Bonus or incentive opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
