Senior Platform Engineer
Charles Schwab5 days ago
Responsibilities
- Resolve complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis across Linux environments.
- Improve platform health, reliability, resilience, and operational sustainability.
- Modernize legacy Batch Framework workloads by migrating them to Farnam.
- Develop platform enhancements and automate maintenance and support processes using Python and .NET.
- Collaborate with Architecture, scheduling partners, and business teams on platform changes and user onboarding.
- Support cloud-service provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and decommissioning.
- Strengthen security, developer experience, and operational resilience for the analytics platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on object-oriented programming with technologies such as Python, .NET, Java, or Perl.
- Advanced Python and .NET experience supporting platform enhancements and maintenance automation.
- Strong UNIX or Linux, SQL, and IT infrastructure experience.
- Demonstrated technical troubleshooting, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and production issue-resolution skills.
- Preferred experience leading technical initiatives or directing small engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with cloud services, high-availability production operations, data migration, batch processing, scheduling, or orchestration technologies such as Control-M.
- Preferred experience with BigQuery, APIs, Java, C#/.NET, source control, release procedures, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, or Remedy.
- Knowledge of security, compliance, disaster recovery, and operational resilience practices.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, make sound technical decisions, and adapt to changing platform priorities.
Benefits
- The role is intended to be performed onsite in the specified location.
- 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.