Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

Job Duties: Create and review test data, scripts, and performance test executions. Monitor CPU and memory usage, garbage collection, request rate, error rates, and average response time. Review project specifications and work with multiple teams to understand nonfunctional requirements, including system architecture, design, and internal and external interfaces. Investigate and identify root causes of performance bottlenecks at the web (IIS), application (Java and .NET), database (Oracle/MongoDB), and message queue (RabbitMQ and Kafka) layers. Configure APM tools like AppDynamics for monolith ASP.NET, PCF .NET Core, and Java applications, and create alerts and set up monitoring dashboards using AppDynamics and Splunk. Assess performance requirements on a release basis to ensure no impact on user experience due to code changes or enhancements in each sprint.

Starting compensation for this location depends on related experience. Annual bonus opportunity and other eligible earnings are not included in the range(s) above. We offer a competitive benefits package, see below for details.

What you have

Job Requirements: Requires Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related field and 60 months of progressive, post-Bachelor’s experience in a related occupation. 

Experience must include 60 months of experience involving the following: AD1/CD1 workload models, production datadriven modeling, and volume forecasting; JMeter, LoadRunner, BlazeMeter, Gatling, Puppeteer, and Lighthouse; Java, C/VuGen, JavaScript/Node.js, Groovy, SQL, SPL, Python, and Shell; AppDynamics (server + EUM), Splunk dashboards, Adobe mPulse, and UX-Profiler; Custom Puppeteer/Node.js framework, POC evaluations for mPulse/EUM/Lighthouse, and Core Web Vitals; and CPU, memory, GC, request rate, error rates, and response time across ASP.NET/.NET Core/Java. 

We offer competitive pay and benefits. Starting compensation depends on related experience. Annual bonus and other eligible earnings are not included in the ranges above. Benefits include: 401(k) w/ company match; employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, volunteering, 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions; paid parental leave and family building benefits; tuition reimbursement; health, dental, and vision insurance; hybrid/remote work schedule available for eligible positions (subject to Schwab’s internal approach to workplace flexibility).