The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Engineering - DXR Engineering - Senior Scheduling Platform Production Engineer - Dallas - Vice President

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in DevOps or Production Engineering with a focus on distributed systems.
  • Proficient in real-time monitoring tools like Prometheus and data visualization tools like Grafana.
  • Strong command of Linux operating systems and system administration principles.
  • Good knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and firewalls.
  • Experience in cloud computing within enterprise environments.
  • Fluent in at least one programming language from Go, Shell, Python, and Erlang.
  • Ability to thrive in a regulated financial services setting.
  • Capable of effectively communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Identify operational risks and reliability issues; implement solutions proactively.
  • Enhance runbooks and automation for reduced manual effort and better reliability.
  • Integrate observability features in new deployments with the development team.
  • Lead outage investigations and present findings to senior management.
  • Define service level indicators and objectives alongside development teams.
  • Assist users in transitioning from the previous Procmon platform to the newer version.
  • Collaborate with remote colleagues efficiently across different regions.
  • Cover regional responsibilities for the Procmon platform, including on-call duties.

Benefits

  • Supportive team environment that values both professional and personal development.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and a diverse set of projects.
  • Opportunities for mentorship and guidance in career growth.
  • Work in a globally distributed team with a strong focus on collaboration.
Full Job Description
This is an experienced-hire role for a self-directed engineer who will act as the regional subject matter expert (SME) for the Procmon platform.

Procmon Platform delivers a highly scalable and reliable ecosystem for scheduling business critical jobs across Goldman Sachs.

Our platform is responsible for scheduling tens of millions of daily jobs for Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management, Risk and other business and engineering functions.

The ecosystem includes a number of high availability, very large scale systems including
  • Job scheduling
  • Event streaming
  • Log shipping
  • Data warehouses
  • Security infrastructure

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Proactively identify operational risks, capacity concerns and reliability gaps; propose and implement remediation without requiring close supervision.
  • Continuously refine runbooks, tooling and automation to reduce manual toil and improve platform reliability.
  • Build observability for new deployments to ensure robustness. Work closely with development team to ensure observability is built in from the start.
  • Lead real-time outage investigations, write and present postmortems to senior management.
  • Define SLIs and SLOs and partner with development teams to ensure system are well designed and live up to our SLAs.
  • Work closely with users to facilitate planned migration from the previous to the newest Procmon platform.
  • Communicate well and work efficiently with remote colleagues in other regions.
  • Provide regional coverage for the Procmon platform, including participation in an on-call rotation and acting as the escalation point for user queries and L3 escalations.


REQUIREMENTS
  • Extensive experience (8+ years) in DevOps or Production Engineering, with expertise in architecting, deploying, and scaling distributed computing systems,
  • Excellent problem-solving and automation skills, leveraging real-time monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus for proactive incident detection and automated response, and utilizing data analysis and Grafana for historical data visualization, deep-dive root cause analysis, and automated operational reporting.
  • Deep knowledge of Linux operating systems and system administration
  • Good networking fundamentals (familiarity with TCP/IP, IP routing, firewalls, secure tunneling protocols).
  • Experience working with distributed computing systems and Cloud computing within enterprise environments.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language; the team uses a mix of Go, Shell, Python and Erlang
  • Able to operate effectively in a mission critical, highly regulated financial services environment.
  • Strong communication skills, able to explain complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical users.
  • Previous experience with supporting and mentoring junior team members and interns is a plus.

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
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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