Site Reliability Engineer

TD Ameritrade
Austin, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 140K

Job location

Austin, United States of America

Tech stack

Cloud Computing
Cloud Foundry
Computer Programming
Computer Engineering
DevOps
Fault Tolerance
Python
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
Aerospike
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform System
Mttr
Cloudformation
Build Management
Information Technology
Kafka
Terraform

Job description

As a Sr Specialist - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) within Client Data Technology, you will play a critical role in ensuring the availability, performance, and resiliency of highly visible cloud-based platforms and applications. In this role, you will influence how systems are designed, built, and operated, driving measurable improvements in reliability and scalability while advancing modern SRE practices across the organization. You will partner closely with engineering and platform teams to define and implement sustainable operating models, enabling consistent, repeatable, and high-performing systems at scale.

Your impact will include identifying and executing opportunities to enhance service health and telemetry, shaping and delivering forward-looking resiliency and availability roadmaps, and leading the adoption of cloud-native technologies aligned with established SRE standards. Through strong collaboration and technical leadership, you will promote a proactive, "shift-left" approach that embeds reliability, fault tolerance, and performance into the development lifecycle from the start. This role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on problem-solving to optimize systems, reduce operational toil, and improve key metrics such as MTTD and MTTR, ultimately ensuring a seamless and reliable experience for clients.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
  • 6+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in cloud environments such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • 4+ years of DevOps engineering leadership experience focused on automation, tooling, and improving production operations
  • 2+ years of technical leadership experience guiding engineering teams and driving operational efficiencies
  • 2+ years of experience implementing and maturing operational best practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, monitoring, capacity planning, and incident management processes
  • Proficiency in programming and automation using tools such as Python, CloudFormation, or Terraform to build infrastructure-as-code solutions
  • Strong knowledge of database technologies (SQL, Aerospike, Postgres)
  • Experience working with messaging and streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of advanced technical leadership experience supporting highly skilled engineering teams
  • Demonstrated ability to influence development teams to design and build cloud-native systems that are scalable, maintainable, and resilient from initial deployment onward

Benefits & conditions

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

About the company

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)., 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.

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