The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Engineering - Cloud Architecture and Engineering - Systems Engineer - Vice President - Seattle

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $150K — $200K *
Seattle, WA 98115In-Person
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5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud architecture roles, hands-on with AWS-based platforms.
  • Deep expertise in Linux systems architecture, including operations and troubleshooting in distributed environments.
  • Strong background in designing and operating scalable infrastructure systems, with networking and distributed systems knowledge.
  • Ability to define and promote standardized infrastructure patterns across engineering teams.
  • Proficient in clear communication of complex architectural decisions to diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience in scripting and coding, particularly with Python.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own reference architectures and infrastructure patterns for Linux workloads on AWS.
  • Architect scalable, highly available, and secure cloud infrastructure for production workloads.
  • Provide architectural guidance as a design authority, ensuring alignment with firm standards and strategies.
  • Lead the design of automation-first migration patterns for on-premises workloads to AWS.
  • Build solutions that integrate on-premises systems with public cloud services securely.
  • Collaborate with application teams to craft resilient infrastructure designs based on workload characteristics.
  • Identify and mitigate risks related to performance and availability in distributed environments.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies and solutions.
  • Engagement with a multi-disciplinary and globally distributed team.
  • Environment that supports creative and collaborative problem-solving.
  • Chance to contribute to industry-leading architecture and engineering practices.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Foundational Infrastructure

As part of Foundation Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Foundational Infrastructure Cloud Architecture and Engineering team is responsible for designing new cloud patterns and solutions to transform our key infrastructure platforms to be cloud native enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our platforms around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to cloud patterns that programmatically enforce safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster. You will also assist early adopters in their use of these new solutions to ensure their efficacy and efficiency and get feedback that will drive further automation and enhancements.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Responsibilities And Qualifications:

As part of our global Cloud Architecture and Engineering team you will be a senior hands-on infrastructure engineer responsible for researching, designing, testing and developing foundational AWS compute and networking platforms used across Goldman Sachs. This role is deeply rooted in systems engineering: Linux operating systems, AWS infrastructure primitives, distributed systems behavior, and production reliability. You will define and implement standardized infrastructure patterns used to migrate and operate critical workloads from on-premises environments into AWS. You will work closely with other infrastructure engineers, SREs, and application teams, acting as a technical authority for cloud-based Linux platforms, while maintaining ownership of systems throughout their full lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design, evolve, and own reference architectures and standardized infrastructure patterns for running Linux-based workloads on AWS, with a focus on EC2- and ECS-based platforms.
  • Architect and implement scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure used to run critical production workloads across the firm.
  • Serve as a design authority for cloud infrastructure solutions, providing architectural guidance and participating in formal design and technical reviews to ensure alignment with firmwide architecture standards, risk posture, and cloud strategy.
  • Lead the design of repeatable, automation-first patterns for migrating and operating workloads from on-premises environments to AWS, including hybrid connectivity and stateful Linux workloads.
  • Build and evolve infrastructure solutions that integrate on-premises systems and public cloud services in a consistent, secure, and operationally sound manner.
  • Partner closely with application teams, SREs, and platform engineers to understand workload characteristics and translate them into resilient infrastructure designs, balancing performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity.
  • Apply systems-level thinking to identify and mitigate risks related to performance, capacity, availability, and failure domains in large-scale distributed environments.
  • Contribute deep Linux systems expertise to architectural decisions, including OS behavior, capacity modeling, operational characteristics, and production troubleshooting.
  • Promote and enable automation-driven operations to reduce manual effort, configuration drift, and operational risk across cloud platforms.
  • Provide senior technical leadership through mentorship, design guidance, and hands-on support during complex design efforts, incident analysis, and cross-team problem solving.
  • Collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams across multiple initiatives in a fast-paced engineering environment.


Basic Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud architecture roles, with hands-on production experience building and operating AWS-based platforms.
  • Deep expertise in Linux systems architecture, including production operations, performance analysis, and troubleshooting in distributed environments.
  • Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable infrastructure systems, with a solid understanding of networking, distributed systems concepts, and infrastructure failure modes.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and drive adoption of standardized infrastructure patterns or reference architectures across multiple engineering teams.
  • Proven experience making and communicating complex architectural decisions, including clear written and verbal communication tailored to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Coding Skills: Demonstrated hands-on experience in scripting and coding, particularly with languages such as Python


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience leading or contributing to large-scale on-premises to cloud migration programs, including hybrid or phased migration strategies.
  • Familiarity with multi-account AWS architectures, landing zones, shared services models, and hybrid connectivity (e.g., Direct Connect, Transit Gateway).
  • Prior experience serving as a design reviewer or architectural authority in formal governance or design review forums.
  • Experience advising on cloud compute and CPU architecture selection, including tradeoffs among x86, ARM, and specialized instance families.
  • Strong understanding of hardware-level considerations (e.g., NUMA topology, memory bandwidth, IO characteristics) and their impact on Linux workload performance.
  • Ability to provide architectural guidance to specialized or emerging platforms (e.g., AI/ML workloads) with a focus on performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and operational risk.

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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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
GS
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