Site Reliability Engineer

Charles Schwab Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$90,000.0 - $110,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Google App Engines Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Code Review Cyber Security Linux DevOps Github Python (Programming Language)
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Windows PowerShell Reliability Engineering Software Tools Site Reliability Engineering Practices Prometheus Systems Integration Google Cloud Enterprise Software Applications Cloud Platform System Delivery Pipeline Grafana Containerization Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Software Version Control Vulnerability Analysis Golang

Job description

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits & conditions

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

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).

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