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(s).

As a Site Reliability Engineer within Client Data Technology, you will lead teams responsible for strengthening the availability, performance, and resilience of critical applications. You will shape the reliability roadmap, advance modern monitoring and automation capabilities, and establish sustainable operating practices for cloud-based platforms.

Working closely with development and engineering partners, you will influence architecture and delivery decisions so reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability are considered throughout the software development lifecycle. Your technical leadership and problem-solving skills will help teams reduce operational risk, improve service health, and build consistent, repeatable solutions that support dependable client experiences.

This position requires participation in a scheduled on-call rotation, including occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays, to support production environments and respond to critical incidents.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in Google Cloud Platform.
• 6+ years of DevOps engineering leadership experience, including the use of automation and tooling to strengthen production operations.
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience developing highly technical professionals and improving engineering efficiency.
• 3+ years of experience defining and implementing operational practices such as service-level objectives, service-level indicators, error budgets, capacity planning, monitoring, blameless postmortems, and toil management.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted solutions to automate processes, streamline operations, and accelerate delivery is required.
• Programming experience using Python or similar languages to automate repeatable processes and build infrastructure-as-code solutions with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database technologies, along with messaging or event-streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical leadership experience supporting engineering teams, developing talent, and driving sustainable improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence development teams and promote cloud solutions that are scalable, resilient, and maintainable from initial design through production.
• Ability to collaborate across functions, evaluate complex technical risks, and make sound decisions that balance reliability, performance, and delivery priorities.

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.