Site Reliability Engineer

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

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to partner across application engineering, architecture, platform, cybersecurity and support teams in Southlake, Texas. You will focus on improving resiliency, observability, automation, and cloud adoption for critical trading platforms, ensuring production readiness and reliable deployments.

You will apply engineering principles to solve complex operational challenges, build automated cloud solutions, and advance AI‑assisted

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

• Improve service resiliency, observability, automation, and cloud adoption for critical trading platforms.
• Collaborate across engineering, platform, cybersecurity, and support teams to strengthen production readiness.
• Build automated and reusable cloud solutions and advance modern reliability practices.
• Apply engineering principles to solve complex operational challenges and enhance incident response effectiveness.

Skills

SRE experience

Public cloud

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Observability

Python

Go

Java

GitHub

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

AI-assisted tools

Tools

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Google Cloud Run

Google Compute Engine

Job description

Your Opportunity

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.