Charles Schwab · 5 hours ago
Senior Software Development Engineer
US-TX-Southlake
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$104K/yr - $230K/yr
10+ years expCharles Schwab is a financial services company that empowers employees to make an impact on their careers. They are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead System Availability Engineering teams, focusing on improving service health and implementing best practices in automation and tooling for client data technology applications.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Identifying tactical and strategic opportunities to improve service health, performance, reliability, and telemetry across CDT Platform
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
Leading the design, architecture and implementation of availability and resiliency roadmap that delivers on modernized tooling and metrics
Working closely with development team to define a sustainable operating model for CDT applications and its DB focusing on platform scale, availability, fault tolerance and performance
Leading the automation and Infrastructure as Code(IaaC) practices to ensure teams are following patterns to ensure repeatability, consistency and portability
Identifying toil and technical debt, develop a comprehensive plan and lead the team through the process of execution
Driving a shift-left mindset and influence architectural decisions to ensure resiliency and scale at the outset of software development process
Being a hands-on technical leader who will lead the team from the front and be able to inspire thought leadership in the team
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications on prem & in any public cloud environment, PCF and IaaS
6+ years in DevOps engineering leadership focusing on complementing production operations with automation and tooling initiatives
6+ years of technical leadership, supporting highly technical individuals, development and driving efficiencies
5+ years of experience defining, driving and implementing operational best practices (SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets, Monitoring errors, capacity planning, blameless postmortems and toil management)
5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools, logging, observability and telemetry solutions (Github, Jenkins, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana etc.)
6+ months of Schwab technology domain experience gained as a current or recent contractor or employee
Proficient in programming languages to automate repeatable processes and building IaaC solutions (Python, CloudFormation, Terraform)
Knowledge of databases - (SQL, Aerospike, Postgres preferred)
Knowledge of IBM MQ, RabbitMQ and Kafka
Company
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