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Senior Database Reliability Engineer

AT Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab

Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Southlake, TX

Pay range: USD $145,000.00 - $165,000.00 / Year

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.

Schwab is transforming people's lives by changing the way the world invests, and this is a unique opportunity to help shape the technical direction of our modernization and Cloud initiatives. We are recruiting to hire an experienced technologist as a Senior NoSQL Database Reliability Engineer for our Availability and Platform Support initiatives within the Aerospike Administration and Operations team. We are seeking a results-oriented technologist with a passion and proven track record for DB support, automation and delivery at scale. This role is for an individual contributor focused on leading, inspiring and collaborating with a team of highly motivated and talented technicians in meeting our business-driven technology objectives.

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What you'll do:

  • Will be responsible for administration and maintenance of Aerospike NoSQL database
  • Perform database upgrades, OS patching, performance tuning and support activities
  • Create scripts to automate database maintenance and administration tasks
  • Understand upcoming database features and provide guidance to the application teams
  • Benchmarking new features and their impact to the application availability and performance
  • Participate in database capacity planning activities for new application features
  • Review application database design and provide critical feedback
  • Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve unique operations problems on a large enterprise and mission critical applications
  • Document and maintain standard operating procedures w.r.t the database
  • Aerospike in the cloud setup in Kubernetes cluster

What you have

Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience with administration and support of Enterprise NoSQL databases like Aerospike, MongoDB
  • 7+ years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up Alerts for early determination of the issues
  • In depth knowledge of database concepts, replication strategies and high availability architectures
  • Experience with database backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, performance tuning activities
  • Familiarity with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning
  • Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, Java, Powershell, Python, and Bash
  • Working knowledge of logging aggregation tools such as Splunk, promethus, grafana or similar tools
  • Previous experience in GitHub and harness
  • Previous experience in using SALT or Ansible for automation of operational database tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Financial services industry experience
  • Experience with cloud providers like GCP, AWS
  • Agile methodologies
  • Strong customer orientation with an affinity to proactively own, communicate, and follow-through projects and issues
  • Extreme sense of ownership to resolve problems in a distributed environment
  • A self-starter with the ability and confidence to independently resolve issues and bring results back to the team

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

Client-provided location(s): Southlake, TX 76092, USA
Job ID: CharlesSchwab-2025-107627
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program