Senior Observability Engineer

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off and sabbatical program

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Charles Schwab in Austin, TX is seeking a skilled observability engineer to build and support telemetry across data center and cloud environments. You will implement metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards, and help improve platform reliability with modern delivery practices.

The role requires 3+ years in systems or production engineering, strong scripting in Python, Ansible, Bash, and experience with enterprise observability tools. This is an on-site role with a strong emphasis on collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/CE/IS or related field.
• 3+ years in systems, platform, software, infrastructure, site reliability, or production engineering.
• Foundational observability concepts including metrics, logs, alerts and dashboards.
• Experience with enterprise observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, or similar.
• Hands-on with Python, Ansible, Bash and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support observability platforms across data center and cloud environments.
• Collect and analyze metrics, logs, traces, and events to improve telemetry and service health.
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Ansible, and shell scripting.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams to resolve issues and drive improvements.

Skills

Observability concepts

Problem solving

Communication

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Python

Ansible

Bash

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Charles Schwab in Austin, TX is seeking a skilled observability engineer to build and support telemetry across data center and cloud environments. You will implement metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards, and help improve platform reliability with modern delivery practices.

The role requires 3+ years in systems or production engineering, strong scripting in Python, Ansible, Bash, and experience with enterprise observability tools. This is an on-site role with a strong emphasis on collaboration.