Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off + sabbatical after 5 yrs

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead hands‑on technical work and drive the team in high availability, maintainability, support, and automation of complex platforms and microservices. You will partner with senior technologists and business partners to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast‑moving environment.

The role emphasizes global collaboration, proactive monitoring, and production support, with a focus on Terraform, CI/CD, and Atlassian toolchains.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux/Java Software Development & Architecture, Operations, DevOps, etc.
• Experience leading or managing technology teams, aligning strategy with execution and mentoring/coaching individuals' performance.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve business and service impacting problems, evaluating all alternatives, and consulting with other technical members of the organization is required.
• Familiarity with database management systems (Oracle, SQL)
• Knowledge of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Experience withContinuousIntegration/ContinuousDelivery(Bamboo, Go or other related tools)
• Experience with Git, JIRA and related Atlassian stack
• Experience with environment provisioning and deployment automation (Salt/Chef/Puppet)
• Ability to work with global teams.
• Flexibility to operate in an environment with changing demands and priorities.
• Experience with Terraform is required.
• Experience with OnCall for Production Support and Incident Management

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of the SRE tasks for the Cross Enterprise organizations.
• Communicate strategic technology plans to associated business partners ensuring collaboration across technology and the business.
• Regularly interact with senior technology leaders, product owners and business partners.
• Lead team on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth knowledge of the applications and environment.
• Partner with highly experienced technologists, creating successful plans to deliver solutions to thebusiness,ensureday-to-day support, high availability, and process compliance.
• Lead Operational delivery and Production support focusing on proactive monitoring, rapid response Platform SRE
• Perform proactive daily system monitoring including reviewing system and application logs as well as responding to, triaging, troubleshooting and remediating incidents.
• Repair and recover from failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted stakeholders and clients, escalating where appropriate.
• Monitor and troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - software, application, and network.
• Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications.
• Identify applications reliability and availability improvements, establish, and build solutions to continue to drive an improved experience.
• Develop and manage continuous deployment and integrate solutions.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Scrum and Ops resources to provide technical expertise and support on key initiatives for system availability and reliability.
• Create and Host Gameday exercises for customers to achieve operational excellence.

Skills

Linux/Java Dev & Architecture

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Database: Oracle/SQL

PaaS & IaaS

CI/CD Tools

Git/JIRA Atlassian

Provisioning & Deployment Automation

Terraform

On-Call & Incident Mgmt

Tools

Bamboo

Go

Git

JIRA

Salt/Chef/Puppet

Terraform

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.

Charles Schwab’s Technology Services Cloud Engineers thrive in a leading-edge work culture while focusing on products that help Schwab customers learn, explore, and make life-impacting moves on their paths to achieving their goals. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute to a highly collaborative culture and a team environment and deliver innovative, value-based reliable solutions. A proven track record of delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly is key to success in the role.

This Senior Cloud Engineering role is a hand-on technical leadership role and will be responsible to drive the teams’ workings on high availability, maintainability, support, and automaton of complex application platforms and microservices.

• Lead the execution of the SRE tasks for the Cross Enterprise organizations.
• Communicate strategic technology plans to associated business partners ensuring collaboration across technology and the business.
• Regularly interact with senior technology leaders, product owners and business partners.
• Lead team on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth knowledge of the applications and environment.
• Partner with highly experienced technologists, creating successful plans to deliver solutions to thebusiness,ensureday-to-day support, high availability, and process compliance.
• Lead Operational delivery and Production support focusing on proactive monitoring, rapid response Platform SRE
• Perform proactive daily system monitoring including reviewing system and application logs as well as responding to, triaging, troubleshooting and remediating incidents.
• Repair and recover from failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted stakeholders and clients, escalating where appropriate.
• Monitor and troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - software, application, and network.
• Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications.
• Identify applications reliability and availability improvements, establish, and build solutions to continue to drive an improved experience.
• Develop and manage continuous deployment and integrate solutions.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Scrum and Ops resources to provide technical expertise and support on key initiatives for system availability and reliability.
• Create and Host Gameday exercises for customers to achieve operational excellence.

What you have

• Experience in Linux/Java Software Development & Architecture, Operations, DevOps, etc.
• Experience leading or managing technology teams, aligning strategy with execution and mentoring/coaching individuals' performance.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve business and service impacting problems, evaluating all alternatives, and consulting with other technical members of the organization is required.
• Familiarity with database management systems (Oracle, SQL)
• Knowledge of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Experience withContinuousIntegration/ContinuousDelivery(Bamboo, Go or other related tools)
• Experience with Git, JIRA and related Atlassian stack
• Experience with environment provisioning and deployment automation (Salt/Chef/Puppet)
• Ability to work with global teams.
• Flexibility to operate in an environment with changing demands and priorities.
• Experience with Terraform is required.
• Experience with OnCall for Production Support and Incident Management

In addition to the base pay range, this role is also 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