Sr Performance Test Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026. Charles Schwab scores A on the Alion truth index.
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. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).
Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology solutions that support investing and financial planning experiences for millions of clients.
As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the scalability, resiliency, and reliability of Schwab’s technology platforms. Working across multiple enterprise initiatives, you will help define and execute performance engineering strategies that improve client experiences, strengthen operational stability, and support business growth. This role partners closely with product, architecture, development, infrastructure, and operations teams to identify performance risks, evaluate system behavior, and drive data-informed decisions. You will leverage automation, observability, performance testing, and resilience engineering practices to proactively address bottlenecks, support release readiness, and influence technology outcomes across complex distributed systems. Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to translate technical insights into meaningful business impact.
What you have
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of technology experience with 7+ years of experience 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 within Agile, DevOps, or product-based delivery environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and executive reporting skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 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