Sr Manager, Reliability Engineering and Operations

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 Sr. Manager in Client Trading Experience Technology (CTET), you will lead System Availability Engineering (SAvE) Teams for Trading platform, playing a critical role in ensuring availability of Trading systems, and guiding the development, automation, tooling and realization of SRE best practices. You will be responsible for:

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  Identifying tactical and strategic opportunities to improve service health, performance, reliability, and telemetry across Trading Platform

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  Leading the team with data driven mindset focusing on addressing key performance metrics such as MTTD, MTTR, Availability in close collaboration with Trading development and IT Operations teams

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  Leading the design, architecture and implementation of availability and resiliency roadmap that delivers on modernized tooling and metrics.

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  Working closely with development team to define a sustainable operating model for Trading applications focusing on platform scale, availability, fault tolerance and performance.

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  Leading the automation and IaaC practices to ensure teams are following patterns to ensure repeatability, consistency and portability.

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  Identifying toil and technical debt, develop a comprehensive plan and lead the team through the process of execution.

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  Driving a shift-left mindset and influence architectural decisions to ensure resiliency and scale at the outset of software development process.

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  Being a hands-on technical leader who will lead the team from the front and be able to inspire thought leadership in the team.

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What you have

Required Qualifications:

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  10+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in any public cloud environment, PCF and IaaS.

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  7+ years in DevOps engineering leadership focusing on complementing production operations with automation and tooling initiatives.

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  7+ years of people leadership, supporting highly technical individuals including performance management, talent development, driving efficiencies and talent engagement.

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  5+ years of experience defining, driving and implementing operational best practices (SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets, Monitoring errors, capacity planning, blameless postmortems and toil management).

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  5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools, logging, observability and telemetry solutions (Bitbucket, Bamboo, Github, Jenkins, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana etc.)

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  Proficient in programming languages to automate repeatable processes and building IaaC solutions (Python, CloudFormation, Terraform)

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  Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Aerospike, MongoDB preferred)

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  Knowledge of IBM MQ, RabbitMQ and Kafka

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

What's in it for you

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:

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  401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

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  Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

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  Paid parental leave and family building benefits

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  Tuition reimbursement

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  Health, dental, and vision insurance

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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

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at or call .