Site Reliability Engineer

Charles Schwab; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 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 every 5 years

Paid parental leave and family"

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Client Trading Experience Technology team in Chicago. The role focuses on improving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of trading platforms, partnering across engineering, architecture, and security teams to enhance resiliency and automation.

You will apply infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and CI/CD practices to deliver dependable production systems, while promoting AI-assisted operational capabilities and

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related field.
• Production applications support in public cloud or large-scale environments.
• Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation experience.
• GitHub or similar for source control, code review and CI/CD automation.
• Monitoring, observability, incident response, production readiness experience.

Responsibilities

• Improve service resiliency, observability, and automation across platforms.
• Partner with engineering, platform, cybersecurity, and support teams to enhance reliability.
• Develop automated, reusable cloud solutions and CI/CD workflows.

Skills

SRE Experience

Production Troubleshooting

IaC & Automation

CI/CD & GitHub

Monitoring & Observability

Dashboarding Grafana

Automation Scripting

AI-assisted tooling

SRE Practices

Communication & Collaboration

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

GCP

GitHub Actions

Job description

Locations

Southlake, TX ; Austin, TX ; Chicago, IL

Requisition ID 2026-126881

Category Engineering & Software Development

Position type Regular

Pay range USD $90,000.00 - $110,000.00 / Year

Application deadline 2026-10-20

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.

Benefits

• 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