Senior Principal Performance Engineer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? 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.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

• 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.
• 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).

As a Senior Principal Performance & Resiliency Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of DTCC's most business-critical platforms. You will 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. In this role, you will partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and product teams to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, eliminate systemic risks, and enhance platform resilience.

Your leadership will help ensure that 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. You will drive a culture of engineering excellence by championing observability, automation, chaos engineering, disaster recovery preparedness, and continuous performance optimization. Your contributions will directly strengthen DTCC's ability to deliver secure, resilient, and highly available services that support global financial markets.

• Make NFRs measurable and release-gated. Define clear targets for latency, throughput, availability, recovery, and capacity, and validate them under production-like volume before release.
• Embed continuous performance and resilience validation. Automate regression testing and failure-injection scenarios in CI so reliability issues are identified before production impact.
• Establish estate-wide observability and readiness standards. Create a common instrumentation, SLI, and capacity-planning baseline so risk platforms can scale, recover, and be operated consistently across the estate.

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

• 10+ years of hands-on performance engineering and reliability experience in latency-sensitive or high-volume transaction systems, with continued depth in profiling, dump analysis, and test harness development.
• Strong performance engineering discipline across load, stress, soak, and spike testing, using workload models grounded in real production traffic and analyzing results through p99 and p99.9 behavior rather than averages.
• 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—even when standard dashboards appear healthy.
• Resiliency and chaos engineering expertise including fault injection, failure-mode cataloging, game day design, and DR…