Observability Engineer - Telemetry & Automation

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering,

Sabbatical after 5 years

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is recruiting an Observability Engineer to strengthen visibility and operational health across data center, cloud, and SaaS environments. You will work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, integrate telemetry, and automate repeatable tasks using Python, Ansible, and shell scripting.

The role emphasizes on-site collaboration in Austin, TX, with opportunities to influence platform reliability, alerting quality, and production readiness while supporting after-hours activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of relevant technical experience with systems, infrastructure, applications, platforms, or monitoring tools.
• Foundational knowledge of metrics, logs, events, dashboards, alerting, and service health.
• Exposure to observability platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, or similar.
• Basic experience writing or modifying Python and shell scripts (Bash).
• Foundational Linux or Windows administration and troubleshooting and networking basics.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise platforms that collect and analyze metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Troubleshoot issues and support telemetry integrations to improve availability.
• Contribute to automation using Python, Ansible, and shell scripting.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and security teams to implement reliable production changes.

Skills

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Troubleshooting

Git

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

AppDynamics

Job description

Charles Schwab is recruiting an Observability Engineer to strengthen visibility and operational health across data center, cloud, and SaaS environments. You will work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, integrate telemetry, and automate repeatable tasks using Python, Ansible, and shell scripting.

The role emphasizes on-site collaboration in Austin, TX, with opportunities to influence platform reliability, alerting quality, and production readiness while supporting after-hours activities