Senior Performance Engineer - Workplace Services Engineering

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).

Workplace Services Engineering (WSE) is an organization within Schwab Technology Services that is embarking on a major transformation. We support Workplace Services, and we’re shaping the future of how people experience financial well‑being at work. We partner with leading employers to deliver innovative retirement, equity, and workplace financial solutions that help millions of participants build stronger financial futures. This is a fast‑growing, high‑impact business where scale meets purpose—where your work directly influences how people plan, save, invest, and succeed.

As a key growth engine for the firm, we’re investing more than ever to expand our capabilities, modernize platforms, and elevate the experiences we deliver to employers and their employees. Our teams work at the intersection of technology, service, and financial expertise—supporting workplace clients with solutions that scale, adapt, and deliver meaningful outcomes. Here, your ideas help shape what’s next for workplace financial services. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and making a real difference in the workplace services industry, you’ll find your place here.

Position Responsibilities

As a Performance Test Engineer, you will need to be a self-starter who partners well with others. This role is all about getting the job done, so you have a can/will do mentality about all tasks associated with driving a phenomenal performance engineering culture in the org. You prioritize mentoring your teammates, and you ask for help when needed. At Schwab, we understand that a highly collaborative environment allows for being wrong sometimes as part of growing and building trust together. As a Schwabbie, you listen to others with an open mind, foster diverse inputs, and respectfully convey your thoughts and opinions in pursuit of our collective goals.

In This Role, You Will

• Help build a critical part of Schwab’s growth in the Workplace market.
• Build scalable platforms supporting critical workplace applications under the Retirement Plan Services organization supporting millions of participants.
• Be a part of modernization initiatives, including API and foundational system improvements that enable faster, safer integration and partnerships 
• Improve platform stability, performance, and resilience to reduce risk and deliver seamless experiences at scale 
• Modernize legacy components to address high risk remediation and compliance while maintaining industry leading standards 
• Leverage AI to innovate processes and outcomes for maximum efficiency and quality.   
• Be part of a collaborative team where you aren’t an “order taker” but an influencer.
  
  

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of performance engineering experience
• Experienced in developing performance engineering processes, policies, procedures, metrics and standards for performance engineering and leading efforts to implement those.
• Will analyze performance results to identify bottlenecks and suggest optimizations, participate in discussions and planning with development and will design and implement overhead, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard tools and developed software.
• Proficient in end-to-end performance assurance, early performance assessment, and validation of commercial and non-commercial on-premises and cloud-based applications.
• Demonstrated ability to build or configure tools to conduct performance tests.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot etc.) to accelerate performance testing cycles, including leveraging custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to extend AI context into our proprietary internal services and modernize team workflows.
• Strong overall architectural understanding of large systems development with a focus on performance.
• Expertise in identifying and resolving performance issues on a variety of server subsystems (CPU, Memory, Threads, I/O, etc.) and operating system counters.
• Designed and Developed automated Performance, Stability, Scalability, and Reliability tests.
• Extensive experience in Performance Testing and Monitoring tools such as JMeter/Blazemeter, Splunk, AppDynamics, Thousand Eyes, etc.
• Confidence using C#, .NET Core, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with Angular, TypeScript, and client side MV* frameworks
• Familiarity grasp of SQL fundamentals with hands-on experience interfacing backend services with relational databases
• Understanding of Agile software development principles, including experience participating in a Scrum-based delivery team
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  
  

In addition to the salary range, this role is also 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