SRE Engineer

Charles Schwab; Richfield Township (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking an experienced SRE engineer to advance system reliability and automation. You will drive onboard tooling, monitoring dashboards, and proactive alerting for large, mission-critical applications.

The role emphasizes on-site collaboration in Richfield Township, OH, with opportunities to influence infrastructure and software delivery practices. The ideal candidate has strong SDLC experience, builds in Grafana/Datadog, and applies AI automation concepts.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of enterprise level administration and support.

Responsibilities

• Evangelize SRE mindset and solve problems through systematization.
• Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve operations problems on enterprise applications.
• Create scripts to automate operational tasks and incorporate solutions into infrastructure.
• Triage alerts and diagnose/resolve critical issues and manage changes.
• Develop tools, frameworks, and instrumentation to validate and increase rollout success.
• Coordinate capacity planning.
• Develop CI/CD orchestration systems to reduce friction for production delivery.
• Real-time troubleshooting of mission-critical workflows and provide feedback to product teams.
• Participate in on-call support.

Skills

SRE mindset

Automation scripting

CI/CD orchestration

Linux administration

Windows administration

Networking basics

Programming (Python/PowerShell/Java)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

AppDynamics

ThousandEyes

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.

Our Opportunity:

We are looking for a skilled engineer with disciplines that incorporate

aspects of software systems engineering and operations. We are combining these

skills to come up with better ways of managing and operating applications.

What you’ll do:

• Evangelize SRE mindset and solve problems through systematization.
• Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve unique operations problems on a large enterprise and mission critical applications
• Create scripts to automate operational tasks & incorporate the solutions into infrastructure
• Triage alerts & diagnose/resolve critical issues, manage implementation of changes
• Develop tools, frameworks, and instrumentation to validate and increase rollout success for applications.
• Coordinate capacity planning
• Develop CI/CD orchestration systems to reduce friction for software delivery to production.
• Real-Time troubleshooting of mission critical application workflows and incorporate feedback to product development.
• Participate in on call support

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of 'challenging the status quo,' this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Skills:

• 6-8 years of experience with enterprise level administration and support
• Current working experience with Schwab systems and processes
• 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up alerts for early determination of the issues in Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, ThousandEyes etc..
• 6-8 years of experience practicing SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) practice, process improvements
• Strong interest in AI LLM and experience with AI Automation
• Hands on experience with one or more Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, and AppD
• Hands on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities
• Experience with Windows 2019, 2022 hosted via Virtual Machine
• Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, IP routing, etc.
• Familiarity with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures
• Linux andWindows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning
• Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, Bash
• Knowledge of one or more of SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres databases
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Helpful Skills:

• Financial services industry experience
• Agile methodologies

Personal Skills:

• Strong customer orientation with an affinity to proactively own, communicate, and follow-through projects and issues
• Extreme sense of ownership to resolve problems in a distributed environment
• Gritty resolve to dig deeper into technical issues in a complex trading eco‑system
• A self-starter with theability and confidence to independently resolve issues and bring results back to the team

In addition to the salary 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