Performance Engineer - Workplace Services Engineering

Your opportunity

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and a commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

The Workplace Services Engineering – Stock Plan Technology organization leads the development and maintenance of Schwab's Workplace Services applications and platforms. We are seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to play a key role in ensuring our applications meet rigorous performance, scalability, and reliability standards across both legacy on prem distributed systems and modern cloud native platforms. This engineer will work under the guidance of a Senior Performance Engineer while driving hands on performance testing, analysis, and optimization across complex environments

Key Responsibilities

• Design, script, and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Build and maintain performance test scripts for both legacy distributed systems and microservices running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
• Validate performance in hybrid architectures involving on prem systems, messaging layers, APIs, and cloud deployed services.
• Use APM and monitoring tools (AppD, Splunk) to isolate bottlenecks in on prem systems, PCF hosted services, and integration points.
• Conduct deep dive diagnostics across the stack: application code, JVM/CLR, database calls, queues, caches, and network paths.
• Partner with senior engineers and architects when legacy constraints require creative performance tuning solutions.
• Work cross functionally with development, QA, SRE, and architecture teams to ensure performance considerations are built into the SDLC.
• Enhance performance testing automation, integrating scenarios into CI/CD pipelines across both on prem and PCF continuous delivery workflows.
• Deliver clear, actionable performance reports illustrating system behavior across legacy and cloud environment.

What you have

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of IT or software engineering experience, preferably with dedicated performance engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools, including JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Experience using monitoring and diagnostic tools such as AppD, Splunk, Datadog, OEM, or similar platforms.
• Working knowledge of database concepts and performance tuning, including Oracle or SQL Server.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or C#, with shell scripting experience in Bash or PowerShell for automation.
• Experience supporting legacy on-prem distributed systems, including Linux and Windows servers, and troubleshooting performance across multi-tier architectures.
• Practical experience deploying, testing, or tuning applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
• Strong understanding of system architecture, cloud environments, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to influene and establish a strong culture around performance testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Foundational knowledge of internet protocols and technologies, including HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, and FTP.
• Experience with capacity analysis for servers, networks, or related infrastructure.