The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Compliance Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Vice President, Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in tech, ideally in a commercial setting.
  • Proficient in Java, Python, or Perl.
  • Knowledge of DevOps/SRE practices and big data technologies is a plus.
  • Solid grasp of software design principles and algorithms.
  • Experience automating tasks and working with Linux environments.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively manage production services for system health and performance.
  • Design systems and plan capacities before they go live.
  • Scale and enhance systems for better reliability and capacity.
  • Implement sustainable incident management processes with a blameless culture.
  • Identify and develop enhancements for system monitoring and control.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on mission-critical problems in a global context.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and vast data resources.
  • Collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement.
  • Investment in team development and skill advancement.
Full Job Description
Job Description

SRE at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build run, and maintain high performant, distributed, fault tolerant systems. As a SRE Engineer you will be filling a mission-critical role ensuring that our systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve our production services, facilitating fast delivery of new services, and reducing downtime. SRE utilizes automation, tools and solid engineering principles to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure and eliminate operational work. We are looking for passionate, curious, driven engineers who thrive on solving operational problems and improving efficiency and would like to apply their skills to Compliance Engineering SRE.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Proactive management of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity and overall system health.
  • Shaping software before go-live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
  • Scaling and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
  • Practicing sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture.
  • Identifying and building improvements to system behavior, control and monitoring tools.
  • Defining and maintaining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to quantify and manage service reliability.
  • Engineering solutions to reduce "toil" through advanced automation and self-healing system capabilities.
  • Conducting capacity modeling and performance tuning to ensure systems meet future demand.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Technical Skills:
  • Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python and Perl.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
  • Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
  • Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
  • Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.
  • Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry).
  • Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
  • Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
  • Experience in some of the following is desired: SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.
  • Experience with Chaos Engineering principles and fault-injection testing to verify system resilience.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and managed services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Understanding of Error Budgeting and its application in balancing feature velocity with system stability.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Interpersonal Skills:
  • Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
  • Highly motivated, pro-active and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
  • Strong, committed and reliable team player and strong communicator, able to take direction but also willing to contribute to discussions on design and strategy.
  • Possess client-facing skills to be able to deal with and form good relationships with the business and other technology groups through day-to-day support and project work.
  • Ability to multi-task and be effective working in a fast-paced environment.
  • Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
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Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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