Senior Principal Performance Engineer

About the role

At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of performance engineering, resilience testing, capacity planning, and operational readiness initiatives across complex distributed systems and cloud-native environments.
• Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and product teams to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, eliminate systemic risks, and enhance platform resilience.
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence by championing observability, automation, chaos engineering, disaster recovery preparedness, and continuous performance optimization.
• Ensure critical financial market infrastructure systems can meet evolving business demands, regulatory expectations, and client service commitments while maintaining the highest standards of availability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success

• 10+ years of hands-on performance engineering and reliability experience in latency-sensitive or high-volume transaction systems
• Strong performance engineering discipline across load, stress, soak, and spike testing
• Deep diagnostic capability across JVM tuning, heap and thread dump analysis, flame graphs, async profiling, and bottleneck isolation across application, database, network, and storage layers
• Resiliency and chaos engineering expertise including fault injection, failure-mode cataloging, game day design, and DR exercises supported by measured RTO/RPO evidence
• Distributed systems and data platform performance depth spanning Kafka throughput, consumer lag, rebalancing, partition skew, backpressure, exactly-once tradeoffs, object storage, lakehouse query performance, and Snowflake warehouse tuning
• Observability architecture experience covering OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics taxonomy, SLI/SLO and error budget design, actionable alerting, and disciplined control of cardinality and telemetry cost
• Broad tooling proficiency with engineering depth across JMeter, Gatling or k6; Prometheus and Grafana; Dynatrace, Datadog or Splunk; and the ability to build custom harnesses when standard tools do not fit the workload
• Regulated environment fluency including DR obligations, production readiness reviews, audit evidence, and disciplined incident and postmortem practices
• Influence without authority with the credibility to set and enforce NFR standards across delivery squads and support release-readiness decisions with clear, evidence-based judgment

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being

Schedule

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Pay

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.