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Senior Platform Engineer?

The Charles Schwab Corp

  • Austin, TX
  • 20 days ago

    Highlights

    Schwab Data is transforming enterprise analytics through a secure, scalable, self-service ecosystem that enables business teams to turn data into meaningful insights with greater speed and independence. Using problem-solving and decision-making skills, you will identify root causes, automate support processes, and implement sustainable improvements across Linux environments.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationAustin, TX
    IndustrySecurity and Surveillance
    Company Size1,000 to 1,499 employees
    Year Founded1971
    Websitehttp://www.aboutschwab.com/careers

    Description

    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 Data is transforming enterprise analytics through a secure, scalable, self-service ecosystem that enables business teams to turn data into meaningful insights with greater speed and independence.

    As a Software Engineer on the Self-Service Analytics Platform team, you will strengthen the reliability and evolution of a critical platform used by analytics teams across Schwab. You will solve complex production issues, improve platform health and resilience, and help modernize legacy Batch Framework workloads by migrating them to Farnam. Using problem-solving and decision-making skills, you will identify root causes, automate support processes, and implement sustainable improvements across Linux environments.

    You will collaborate with Architecture, scheduling partners, and business teams to guide platform changes, onboard users, strengthen security, and improve the developer experience. Your adaptability and technical expertise across Python, .NET, Java, SQL, APIs, and cloud-based data services will help deliver scalable, dependable analytics capabilities.

    What you have

    What You Have

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
    • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on object-oriented programming using technologies such as Python, .NET, Java, or Perl
    • Advanced Python and .NET experience supporting platform enhancements and automating maintenance activities
    • Strong UNIX or Linux, SQL, and IT infrastructure experience
    • Demonstrated problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills, including root-cause analysis and production issue resolution
    • Ability to collaborate across functions, make sound technical decisions, and adapt to changing platform priorities

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience leading technical initiatives or providing direction to small engineering teams
    • Experience managing cloud services through provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and decommissioning
    • Experience supporting production operations in a high-availability environment
    • Experience with data migration, batch processing, scheduling, or orchestration technologies such as Control-M
    • Experience with BigQuery, APIs, Java, C#/.NET, source control, and release procedures
    • Knowledge of security, compliance, disaster recovery, and operational resilience practices
    • Experience working within Agile methodologies and using GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, or Remedy

    In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

    About Company

    The Charles Schwab Corporation is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Named "Highest in Investor Satisfaction with Self-Directed Services" by J.D. Power and Associates in 2009, its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC) affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through Schwab Advisor Services.

    The Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC) provides banking and mortgage services and products. To meet the needs of our clients, we are actively recruiting people with the desire, drive and creativity to find solutions that help meet our clients' needs; who want the chance to learn, grow with the company and explore their career opportunities; who will strive for excellence in achieving our clients' and our company's goals; who have the highest ethical standards - individuals who take pride in making a difference in people's lives.

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