Software Engineer 2 (Performance Engineering)

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products

• Performance Testing & Engineering - Design, develop, and execute performance tests using Apache JMeter and other industry-standard tools.

• Conduct mobile and browser performance testing to validate responsiveness and scalability.

• Implement service virtualization strategies to simulate dependent systems and reduce test environment constraints.

• System Optimization - Perform Java application tuning for memory, thread, and garbage collection optimization.

• Analyze and optimize backend services, APIs, and microservices for high throughput  and low latency.

• Observability & Monitoring - Integrate and leverage observability tools such as Datadog APM,

• Prometheus, and Grafana for real-time performance monitoring.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs).

• Resiliency & Chaos Testing

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience with Apache JMeter or similar tools

• Strong Java and JVM tuning skills

• Experience optimizing APIs, microservices, and backend systems

• Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools

• Understanding of service virtualization

• Experience with resiliency or chaos testing

• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration of performance testing

• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Exposure to distributed tracing and log analytics tools

• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash)

• Background in high‑scale or real-time systems

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accr