Senior Site Reliability Engineer ( SRE) at Charles Schwab Inc.
Austin, TX
$130,000–$175,000
Jul 21, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level reliability engineering role focused on maintaining and improving the stability of large-scale enterprise platforms. Day-to-day work centers on building automation, designing observability and monitoring solutions, managing incident response, and applying SRE principles across distributed systems. The role suits an experienced engineer with a broad background spanning infrastructure, cloud, scripting, and operational tooling, including familiarity with AI/ML-driven monitoring approaches.
Senior level · 8+ years · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends software/automation engineering (writing code, building tooling, CI/CD) with operational/systems administration work (Linux/Windows administration, monitoring, incident response). The primary framing around SRE automation and code development tips it toward 15-1252, but the heavy operational and infrastructure administration duties make 15-1244 a genuine runner-up.
AIOps and AI/ML-powered operational practices (anomaly detection, predictive alerting, ML-assisted observability) are listed under Required Qualifications and treated as a hard gate, though the specific platform is unspecified.
The salary range is referenced ('in addition to the salary range') but no figures are provided in the posting text.
The degree requirement (Bachelor's in CS, IT, Engineering, or related field) is listed under Required Qualifications with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard gate.
CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions), Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
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