Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible.  Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas.  Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients.  Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.  Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions.  Want to push the limit of digital possibilities?  Start here.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. 

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers. 

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Your Impact

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for improving the availability and reliability of some of the firm’s most critical platform services, and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We are looking for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.

The SRE team develops and maintains platforms and tools which help other engineering teams in Goldman Sachs to build and operate reliable and resilient systems. The platforms we offer range from central logging and tracing to monitoring and alerting and we provide tools to drive adoption and improvements to capacity planning, operational readiness assessments, production incident postmortems, SLIs / SLOs, and deployment automation including canary releases.

The products and services we provide to our internal customers are used by thousands of engineers every day. We believe that reliability is the most important feature of any system, and we are devoted to giving our engineers the platforms and tools they need to build and operate reliable products.

How You Will Fulfil Your Potential

As a developer in the SRE team, you will work with internal customers, product owners, and SREs to design, develop, and support the platforms and tools we provide to other engineering teams to enable them to run reliable large scale production systems spanning cloud and on-prem datacenters.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support SRE platforms and tools
• Collaborate with other teams to onboard them onto SRE owned platforms and tools and help them implement SRE best practices
• Adhere to and drive SRE disciplines and processes across the global team
• Create and support automation solutions and build out monitoring and alerting to improve the reliability of the platforms and tools we operate

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or engineering with at least 3 years industry experience
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language, preferably in Java or Go and JavaScript / Typescript
• Excellent programming skills including debugging, testing, and optimizing code
• Strong problem solving / analytical skills
• Experience with algorithms, data structures as well as software and system design
• Experience automating operational tasks
• Comfortable with technical ownership, managing multiple stakeholders, and working as part of a global team

Preferred Experience

• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Experience with databases / data stores like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch
• Proficiency in using Terraform for Infrastructure deployment and management
• Knowledge of cloud native solutions in AWS or GCP
• Systems experience in Linux and networking, especially in scaling for performance and debugging complex distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems

About Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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