Technical Lead - Site Reliability Engineering
Your Opportunity
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you are 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).
Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.
As a member of the Retirement Technology (RT) Senior Leadership Team, you will lead the SAVE (Service Availability and Engineering) organization. This scope of responsibility will include all Software Availability and SRE Engineering components for RBS, SRT and RPS. In totality, the scope of responsibility includes 140+ active applications. You will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment. The platforms you will support are essential to the success of the holistic Schwab Retirement lines of business.
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related fields
- 10+ years of experience with enterprise level administration and support
- 10+ years of experience in troubleshooting and providing support to .NET/.NET Core Production applications
- Strong coaching and mentoring experience to build and sustain high performing team
- Proficiency in managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment
- Cloud architecture (private & public): Proven design/operation of distributed systems on private cloud and at least one public cloud (Azure/AWS/GCPGCPVPC/VNet, IAMIAMontainers/Kubernetes, service mesh, messaging/streaming, secrets management, cost aware architectures
- Applied AI in software delivery: Practical experience integrating AI into products/platforms (e.g., intelligent services, retrieval pipelines, model driven features) with strong grounding in data pipelines, model lifecycle, inference performance, and guardrails
- DevOps/SRESREoperational excellence: CI/CD, artifact/versioning, progressive delivery, infrastructure as code, monitoring/alerting (logs, metrics, traces), capacity planning, DR, resilience testing, incident/problem management
- Security, compliance, and standards: Working knowledge of firm cloud security controls, identity/federation, secure development standards; ability to enforce standards and file findings where needed (e.g., eGRC)
- Experience with Windows Server/Linux and IIS webserver administration
- Experience and knowledge of SQLSQLtabase systems, MongoDB/Aerospike is a plus
- Experience with logging/application monitoring tools (AppDynamics, Splunk, DataDog, Grafana etc.)
- Experience with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures
- Knowledge of one or more of Message Brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ
Preferred Qualifications:
- Architecture craftsmanship: Advanced fluency with Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture for large distributed systems; mentor teams on bounded contexts, aggregates, and dependency inversion
- Financial domain context (RPS): Retirement recordkeeping/plan configuration/transaction processing; connect engineering choices to client outcomes and regulatory expectations
- Executive communication: Concise, data backed updates (dashboards, SLAs, quality/throughput trends) suitable for senior leadership and cross functional partners
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:
- 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
What you are good at
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related fields
- 10+ years of experience with enterprise level administration and support
- 10+ years of experience in troubleshooting and providing support to .NET/.NET Core Production applications
- Strong coaching and mentoring experience to build and sustain high performing team
- Proficiency in managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment
- Cloud architecture (private & public): Proven design/operation of distributed systems on private cloud and at least one public cloud (Azure/AWS/GCPGCPVPC/VNet, IAMIAMontainers/Kubernetes, service mesh, messaging/streaming, secrets management, cost aware architectures
- Applied AI in software delivery: Practical experience integrating AI into products/platforms (e.g., intelligent services, retrieval pipelines, model driven features) with strong grounding in data pipelines, model lifecycle, inference performance, and guardrails
- DevOps/SRESREoperational excellence: CI/CD, artifact/versioning, progressive delivery, infrastructure as code, monitoring/alerting (logs, metrics, traces), capacity planning, DR, resilience testing, incident/problem management
- Security, compliance, and standards: Working knowledge of firm cloud security controls, identity/federation, secure development standards; ability to enforce standards and file findings where needed (e.g., eGRC)
- Experience with Windows Server/Linux and IIS webserver administration
- Experience and knowledge of SQLSQLtabase systems, MongoDB/Aerospike is a plus
- Experience with logging/application monitoring tools (AppDynamics, Splunk, DataDog, Grafana etc.)
- Experience with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures
- Knowledge of one or more of Message Brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ
Preferred Qualifications:
- Architecture craftsmanship: Advanced fluency with Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture for large distributed systems; mentor teams on bounded contexts, aggregates, and dependency inversion
- Financial domain context (RPS): Retirement recordkeeping/plan configuration/transaction processing; connect engineering choices to client outcomes and regulatory expectations
- Executive communication: Concise, data backed updates (dashboards, SLAs, quality/throughput trends) suitable for senior leadership and cross functional partners
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Why Schwab?
At Schwab, “Own Your Tomorrow” embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees unleash their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. We’re a modern financial services firm that stands apart from the industry, where you can go as far as your ambition takes you.
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