Software Engineer III - Performance and Resiliency Engineering (Consumer & Community Banking)

ARCHER; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Coverage

On-Site Health And Wellness Centers

Retirement Savings Plan

Backup Childcare

Tuition Reimbursement

Mental Health Support

Financial Coaching

Job summary

ARCHER in Chicago seeks an experienced performance and reliability engineer to improve the performance, stability, and production readiness of high-volume platforms. You will lead capacity planning, observability improvements, incident analysis, and durable remediation across teams.

You will apply resiliency and progressive-release practices, optimize containerized workloads in AWS, and promote secure, AI-assisted software development across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Formal software engineering training or certification with at least 5 years of experience in performance or reliability engineering for production platforms.
• Practical AWS and container experience; proficiency with observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Improve performance, stability, and production readiness of high-volume platforms.
• Apply resiliency and progressive-release practices; optimize containerized workloads.
• Promote secure, AI-assisted engineering across teams.

Skills

Performance engineering

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS

Observability

Load testing

Capacity modeling

Performance tuning

Incident triage

Root-cause analysis

Resiliency patterns

AI-assisted dev

Secure coding

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS

Job description

Improve the performance, stability, and production readiness of high-volume platforms through performance testing, capacity planning, observability, incident analysis, and durable remediation. Apply resiliency and progressive-release practices, optimize containerized workloads, and promote secure, validated AI-assisted engineering across teams.

Requirements

Requires formal software engineering training or certification and at least five years of applied experience, including performance or reliability engineering for critical production platforms and practical AWS and container experience. Candidates should be proficient with observability tools and able to lead responsible, secure use of enterprise-authorized AI development tools while working independently on design and functionality problems.

Key Skills

Performance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Distributed Systems, AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Observability, Load And Stress Testing, Capacity Modeling, Performance Tuning, Incident Triage, Root-Cause Analysis, Resiliency Patterns, AI-Assisted Software Development, Secure Coding

Benefits

Health Care Coverage, On-Site Health And Wellness Centers, Retirement Savings Plan, Backup Childcare, Tuition Reimbursement, Mental Health Support, Financial Coaching