Site Reliability Engineer

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Sabbatical after 5 years

Job summary

Charles Schwab in Austin, TX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer within Client Data Technology responsible for strengthening availability, performance and resilience of critical applications. You will lead initiatives to shape reliability roadmaps and advance monitoring and automation to ensure scalable cloud-based platforms.

Collaborate with development and engineering partners to influence architecture and drive repeatable, fault-tolerant solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of software development and SRE experience, supporting production apps in Google Cloud Platform.
• 6+ years of DevOps leadership, using automation to strengthen production operations.
• 4+ years of technical leadership improving engineering efficiency.
• 3+ years defining operational practices: SLOs, error budgets, toil management.
• Experience using AI-assisted solutions to automate processes.
• Programming in Python and IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• SQL and database knowledge; RabbitMQ or Kafka expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to strengthen availability, performance and resilience of critical apps.
• Shape reliability roadmap and advance monitoring and automation for cloud platforms.
• Influence architecture and delivery decisions for scalable, maintainable systems.
• Collaborate with development to reduce operational risk and improve service health.
• Participate in on-call rotation, including evenings, weekends and holidays.

Skills

SRE leadership

Python automation

SQL

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

RabbitMQ

Kafka

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).

As a Site Reliability Engineer within Client Data Technology, you will lead teams responsible for strengthening the availability, performance, and resilience of critical applications. You will shape the reliability roadmap, advance modern monitoring and automation capabilities, and establish sustainable operating practices for cloud-based platforms.

Working closely with development and engineering partners, you will influence architecture and delivery decisions so reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability are considered throughout the software development lifecycle. Your technical leadership and problem-solving skills will help teams reduce operational risk, improve service health, and build consistent, repeatable solutions that support dependable client experiences.

This position requires participation in a scheduled on-call rotation, including occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays, to support production environments and respond to critical incidents.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in Google Cloud Platform.
• 6+ years of DevOps engineering leadership experience, including the use of automation and tooling to strengthen production operations.
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience developing highly technical professionals and improving engineering efficiency.
• 3+ years of experience defining and implementing operational practices such as service-level objectives, service-level indicators, error budgets, capacity planning, monitoring, blameless postmortems, and toil management.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted solutions to automate processes, streamline operations, and accelerate delivery is required.
• Programming experience using Python or similar languages to automate repeatable processes and build infrastructure-as-code solutions with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database technologies, along with messaging or event-streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical leadership experience supporting engineering teams, developing talent, and driving sustainable improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence development teams and promote cloud solutions that are scalable, resilient, and maintainable from initial design through production.
• Ability to collaborate across functions, evaluate complex technical risks, and make sound decisions that balance reliability, performance, and delivery priorities.

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