Senior Platform Engineer
Charles Schwab2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Resolve complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Improve platform health, reliability, resilience, and operational sustainability.
- Automate support and maintenance processes across Linux environments.
- Migrate legacy Batch Framework workloads to Farnam.
- Collaborate with Architecture, scheduling partners, and business teams on platform changes and user onboarding.
- Strengthen security and improve the developer experience.
- Support cloud-service provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and decommissioning when applicable.
- Provide technical direction and support scalable analytics capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on object-oriented programming.
- Advanced Python and .NET experience supporting platform enhancements and automated maintenance.
- Strong UNIX or Linux, SQL, and IT infrastructure experience.
- Demonstrated technical troubleshooting, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and production issue resolution skills.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, make sound technical decisions, and adapt to changing platform priorities.
- Preferred experience leading technical initiatives or directing small engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with cloud services, high-availability production operations, data migration, batch processing, scheduling, orchestration, BigQuery, APIs, Java, C#/.NET, source control, and release procedures.
- Preferred knowledge of security, compliance, disaster recovery, and operational resilience practices.
- Preferred experience using GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, or Remedy.
Benefits
- The role is intended to be performed on site in the specified location(s).
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.