Site Reliability 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 vacation and volunteering time

Sabbatical after 5 years of service

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to partner with engineering, architecture, platform, and security teams to boost resilience, observability, and automation for critical trading platforms in an on-site Austin environment. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and AI-assisted operational capabilities to improve incident response and production readiness.

You will build dashboards, alerts, and tooling in a collaborative culture that values continuous improvement,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Operations, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting production applications in public cloud or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Experience using GitHub or similar platforms for source control, code review, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, production recovery, and operational readiness.
• Experience building dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions using Grafana or comparable observability platforms.
• Experience developing automation using Python, Go, Java, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools with appropriate validation, governance, and human oversight.
• Working knowledge of SRE practices including service-level objectives, post-incident improvement, runbooks, and toil reduction.
• Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and operational decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of critical trading platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, platform, cybersecurity, and support teams to improve resiliency and deployment reliability.
• Develop automated and reusable cloud solutions and strengthen production readiness across distributed environments.
• Advance reliability practices through infrastructure as code, monitoring, CI/CD automation, and AI-assisted capabilities.

Skills

SRE experience

Production troubleshooting

Infrastructure as Code

GitHub CI/CD

Monitoring observability

Grafana dashboards

Automation scripting

AI-assisted tooling

SRE fundamentals

Collaboration skills

Job description

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

The Client Trading Experience Technology team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of critical trading platforms that support clients around the clock. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will partner across application engineering, architecture, platform, cybersecurity, and support teams to improve service resiliency, observability, automation, and cloud adoption for business-critical systems. Your work will directly influence platform stability, incident response effectiveness, deployment reliability, and overall client experience.

In this role, you will apply engineering principles to solve complex operational challenges, build automated and reusable cloud solutions, and strengthen production readiness across distributed environments. You will help advance modern reliability practices through infrastructure such as code, monitoring, CI/CD automation, and AI-assisted operational capabilities while contributing to a collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering excellence.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Operations, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting production applications in public cloud or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Experience using GitHub or similar platforms for source control, code review, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, production recovery, and operational readiness.
• Experience building dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions using Grafana or comparable observability platforms.
• Experience developing automation using Python, Go, Java, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools with appropriate validation, governance, and human oversight.
• Working knowledge of SRE practices including service-level objectives, post-incident improvement, runbooks, and toil reduction.
• Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and operational decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including Cloud Run and Google Compute Engine.
• Experience creating reusable Infrastructure as Code components and integrating infrastructure changes with deployment workflows.
• Experience supporting cloud-native, Linux-based, or enterprise platform environments.
• Experience with Grafana administration, Prometheus-compatible monitoring, OpenTelemetry, log aggregation, and alerting technologies.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, security scanning, policy controls, and software supply-chain practices.
• Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes concepts.
• Experience implementing or supporting AIOps capabilities that improve operational efficiency and service reliability.
• Experience modernizing enterprise applications and supporting highly available, resilient cloud environments.

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance