Job Description

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 the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services, and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We look 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.

SRE team develops and maintains platforms that enables GS Engineering Teams to adhere to Observability requirements and SLA Management. It is part of SRE Platforms responsibility for designing, developing, and operating distributed systems which provide observability for Goldman’s mission-critical applications and platform services. These systems span on-premises datacentres and multiple public cloud environments.  We design and build highly scalable tools which provide the following functions to our global engineering teams:

• Alerting
• Metrics and monitoring
• Log collection and analysis
• Tracing

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 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, vendors, product owners, and SREs to design and develop a large-scale distributed system to handle alert generation, metrics collection, log collection & trace events. You will run a production environment spanning cloud and on-prem datacentres. You will define observability features and drive their implementation.

Basic Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, Spring framework.
• Proficiency in using Terraform for Infrastructure deployment and management.
• Excellent programming skills - developing, debugging, testing and optimizing code.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable with technical ownership, managing multiple stakeholders, and working as part of a global team

Preferred Experience

• Knowledge of cloud native solutions in AWS or GCP
• Experience with products like Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty
• Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB , Elasticsearch
• Experience with open-source messaging systems like RabbitMQ and/or Kafka
• Systems experience in UNIX/Linux and networking, especially in scaling for performance and debugging complex distributed systems

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

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