Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior

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.

Your Opportunity

As a Production Support Engineer, you will provide strategic and technical leadership for our Order Management System (OMS) in a high-availability environment. You will define reliability direction, lead enterprise-impact incident response, and establish scalable support practices that improve system resilience across teams.

What You Are Good At

• Serving as the top technical escalation point for the most complex and business-critical production incidents

• Setting reliability strategy, operational priorities, and service-level objectives for supported platforms

• Leading cross-functional incident command and executive-facing communication during major disruptions

• Defining and governing support standards, readiness criteria, and risk controls for production changes

• Driving long-term reliability programs that reduce incident frequency and customer impact

• Designing scalable operational models, including observability, alerting, and response frameworks

• Partnering with architecture, engineering, database, and infrastructure leaders on platform direction

• Evaluating systemic risks and making high-impact decisions under time pressure

• Building team capability through mentorship, coaching, and technical leadership at scale

• Establishing quality standards for incident analysis, problem management, and root-cause elimination

• Influencing investment priorities based on reliability trends, capacity risks, and operational data

• Ensuring production operations remain compliant, secure, and audit-ready

• Supporting 24x7 operations on a rotating on-call schedule

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

• 4-year college degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 8+ years of experience in production support, SRE, software operations, or reliability engineering

• Proven leadership in restoring and stabilizing mission-critical systems under high-pressure conditions

• Expert-level troubleshooting in distributed systems, Java application stacks, and data-intensive platforms

• Deep understanding of observability, incident command, and operational governance practices

• Strong Oracle operational expertise and performance diagnostics background

• Strong Linux platform knowledge (RHEL 7/8/9 preferred), including performance and capacity considerations

• Advanced automation mindset with practical scripting and process design capabilities

• Demonstrated success driving cross-team reliability initiatives and measurable operational outcomes

• Executive-level communication skills for both technical and business stakeholders

Available on nights and weekends as required.

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