Site Reliability Engineer
Charles Schwab2 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $162k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead teams responsible for application availability, performance, resilience, and production reliability.
- Shape the reliability roadmap and advance monitoring, automation, and sustainable operating practices for cloud-based platforms.
- Influence architecture and delivery decisions to improve reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Define and implement service-level objectives, service-level indicators, error budgets, capacity planning, monitoring, blameless postmortems, and toil-management practices.
- Use automation, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted solutions to streamline operations and accelerate delivery.
- Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation, including occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays, to support production environments and respond to critical incidents.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in Google Cloud Platform.
- At least 6 years of DevOps engineering leadership experience using automation and tooling to strengthen production operations.
- At least 4 years of technical leadership experience developing highly technical professionals and improving engineering efficiency.
- At least 3 years of experience implementing operational practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, monitoring, blameless postmortems, and toil management.
- Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted solutions to automate processes, streamline operations, and accelerate delivery.
- Programming experience with Python or similar languages, plus infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Working knowledge of SQL, database technologies, and messaging or event-streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Preferred qualifications include 6+ years of technical leadership supporting engineering teams, talent development, and sustainable improvement, along with the ability to influence scalable and resilient cloud solutions and evaluate complex technical risks.
Benefits
- The role is expected to be performed on site in the specified location rather than remotely.
- The position includes a scheduled on-call rotation with occasional evening, weekend, and holiday coverage.
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.