Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: USD $72,500 - $107,773 / Year

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 Retirement industry together.

Personalized Investing operates and develops Schwab's most innovative products with a primary goal of delighting our clients while empowering them to meet their financial objectives. We are seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer who is a passionate problem solver, an automation aficionado, and life-long learner willing to share knowledge and develop others. Our SRE team partners closely with product development teams, cloud infrastructure teams, and on-prem platform teams to achieve highly available and resilient applications. You will be expected to balance solving problems, engineering solutions, and coding/scripting to your benefit, that of your team, or our applications. Our development stack consists of Java, Angular, Python, MongoDB, Aurora (MySQL), SQL Server, Kafka, RabbitMQ. Our applications run both on-prem and in AWS.

This could be your role if:

• You are a problem solver and enjoy engineering solutions, often collaborating to achieve the best outcome.
• You are a problem preventer, iteratively improving observability, alerts, metrics, feedback loops, and system design.
• You work well with others. Everyone on our team has the back of every other member. It's that simple.
• You possess excellent communication skills whether documenting, messaging, or speaking/listening.
• You are effective in responding to alerts, escalations, and system recovery events. You are passionate about eliminating noisy alerts.
• You demonstrate courage in protecting our applications and doing what is best for our clients.
• You partner well with developers and architects.

What you have

Required skills:

• Computer Science or Engineering degree, plus 1 year of work experience in the field.
• 1+ years in a SRE, Development, Systems Administration, or Operational role(s) with experience that includes relational databases, and message-based and/or event streaming technologies
• 1+ years of cloud experience; AWS, GCP or Azure
• 1+ years of experience with Splunk

Preferred skills:

• Experience with PCF
• Experience with Kafka
• AWS experience; S3, ECS, EC2, Aurora, Grafana, CloudWatch
• Experience with SRE discipline/industry best practices

What's in it for you

At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. 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