Sr Specialist - Software Development & 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.

Duties: Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs.

Design and manage production environment for Market Data Systems. Manage Trading platform connecting to a variety of destinations, covering multiple instrument types; Real-Time troubleshooting of trading workflows and incorporate feedback to product development. Develop and Manage monitoring framework for a complex distributed Trading system.

Collaborate with Development and QA, for bringing Trading Products and Workflows to production from soup-to-nuts. Develop tools and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks, deriving insights from machine-generated data such as logs, REST stats, etc. Develop predictive analytics and monitoring for financial trading infrastructure.

Develop CI/CD orchestration systems to reduce friction for software delivery to production. Develop tools, frameworks and instrumentation to validate and increase rollout success for applications. Real-time troubleshooting of trading workflows and incorporate feedback to product development.

Position allows for partial remote work. Must live within reasonable commuting distance. Reports to company office in Austin, Texas. Subject to Schwab's internal approach to workplace flexibility.

Starting compensation for this location depends on related experience. Annual bonus opportunity and other eligible earnings are not included in the range(s) above. We offer a competitive benefits package, see below for details.

Job Location: Austin, TX

Salary: $139,464 to $160,800 per year

What you have

Job Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 60 months of experience in any occupation in which the required experience was gained.

Requires 5 years of progressive, post-Bachelor's related experience, which include some experience in each of the following skills: In the alternative, employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 36 months of experience in any occupation in which the required experience was gained.

Requires 3 years of experience, which include some experience in each of the following skills: Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting and tuning; Developing in programming languages such as .net or java; Developing in scripting languages such as, powershell, bash and python; Developing SQL code in MSSQL;

Implementing IP networking including TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, Multicast, and IP routing; Distributed systems and messaging architectures including Solace, MQ, and 29West; and Developing monitoring tools using Splunk, Influx, and Grafana.