Jobs / Charles Schwab
DevOps Technical Lead
Charles Schwab · Austin, TX, United States
Austin, TX, United StatesExp: 7+ yrs129,000-200,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
129,000-200,000 USD/yearly
Location
Austin, TX, United States
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.
Job summary
As a DevOps Technical Lead, you will advance modern software engineering practices, strengthen CI/CD reliability and standardization, and accelerate engineering productivity through AI-assisted development and automation. This role involves hands-on technical leadership and strategic influence, partnering across various teams to deliver secure, scalable, and repeatable releases in a highly regulated environment. You will lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows, ensuring consistency, auditability, and operational readiness throughout the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
Bonus opportunitiesIncentive opportunities401(k) with company matchEmployee stock purchase planPaid time for vacationPaid time for volunteering28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of servicePaid parental leaveFamily building benefitsTuition reimbursementHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insurance
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering and/or platform engineering
- Demonstrated technical leadership (e.g., Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Senior Engineer owning major systems)
- 1-2 years of AI software development experience, such as GitHub CoPilot
- Proven expertise in building and operating CI/CD pipelines, including workflow automation, environment management, release orchestration, and quality gate implementation
- Experience with modern DevOps toolchains such as GitHub-based workflows, artifact management, feature flagging, and automated testing platforms
- Strong proficiency in software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, including pipeline authoring, testing strategies, and code quality standards
- Hands-on development experience in at least one major programming stack (e.g., Java or C#/.NET)
- Strong fundamentals in application development, design patterns, and code review practices
- Practical experience integrating secure SDLC practices, including implementing security controls such as secrets scanning, policy-based checks, and automated compliance validations
- Demonstrated analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills to improve system reliability, scalability, and delivery outcomes
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and translate technical concepts into business impact
- Experience working in a regulated environment with exposure to audit, risk, compliance, or change management processes
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and cloud delivery patterns (e.g., Terraform, cloud platforms, or platform-as-a-service environments)
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or coding assistants and contributing to team-level best practices for responsible and effective adoption
Responsibilities
- Advance modern software engineering practices
- Strengthen CI/CD reliability and standardization
- Accelerate engineering productivity through responsible adoption of AI-assisted development and automation
- Lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows
- Ensure consistency, auditability, and operational readiness throughout the software development lifecycle
- Embed quality gates, automated testing, and security controls directly into delivery pipelines
- Enhance developer experience by creating reusable templates
- Enable self-service delivery patterns
- Coach engineers to adopt best practices in workflow automation, testing, and system design
- Contribute directly to production-grade code
- Guide architecture decisions
- Mentor engineers to strengthen technical capabilities across teams
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners to align on delivery priorities
- Resolve complex challenges
- Continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Own the end-to-end CI/CD experience from build and test through promotion and deployment
- Establish standardized, governed pipeline patterns that are secure, reliable, scalable, and audit-ready
- Accelerate delivery outcomes by embedding quality gates, security scanning, and automation-first practices
- Advance responsible AI adoption to improve engineering throughput
Skills
C#.NETGitHubJavaTerraformGitHub ActionsPython
Industry
Finance industry
Relocation
No