The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Network Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Electronic Trading Platform

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • CCNP or equivalent accreditation in infrastructure delivery including BGP, multicast routing, switching, and network design.
  • Ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from design to production.
  • Strong communication and analytical problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and deliver high-performance distributed trading networks.
  • Own relationships with trading desks, technology leaders, and external clients to translate business needs into network solutions.
  • Lead incident response and operational excellence for critical network infrastructure.
  • Drive strategic initiatives in network architecture, vendor evaluation, and standardization.
  • Employ AI-assisted tools for network automation and configuration management.
  • Expand engineering skill sets by exploring new hardware, software, and tools across the organization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness offerings.
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Employee discount programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
  • Architect and deliver high-performance, large-scale distributed trading networks, setting technical direction and driving adoption of automation at scale.
  • Own senior stakeholder relationships across trading desks, technology leadership, and external clients - translating business requirements into robust network solutions and driving commercial outcomes.
  • Lead incident response and operational excellence for mission-critical network infrastructure, establishing best practices for change management, capacity planning, and risk mitigation.
  • Drive strategic initiatives including network architecture evolution, vendor and technology evaluation, and cross-regional standardization across global data center and exchange connectivity footprints.
  • Use AI-assisted tools to support network automation, configuration management, and observability workflows.
  • Expand beyond your domain. We have broad engineering remits, affording opportunities to explore innovative hardware, software, and emerging tooling.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • CCNP or equivalent accreditation with deep expertise in end-to-end infrastructure delivery, including BGP, multicast routing, switching, and network design at scale.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from design through production delivery.
  • Strong communication and analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to influence at senior levels.


Preferred Qualifications
  • 7+ years supporting mission-critical, latency-sensitive production environments.
  • Extensive experience with colocation connectivity, cross-connect provisioning, carrier diversity, and exchange/venue connectivity models across multiple regions.
  • Proven track record with production change management practices and strong knowledge of SDLC.
  • Advanced scripting (bash/python) and configuration management (Ansible, Salt) experience building tooling and driving automation with an Infrastructure-as-Code mindset.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development and automation tools.
  • Experience with open source monitoring and metrics collection (Nagios, TICK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) with the ability to define and drive observability strategy.
  • Comfortable operating in and optimising Linux-based environments.
  • Production operations: leading incident response, triaging and troubleshooting complex, multi-layered network issues with a focus on root cause elimination.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills as the role interfaces directly with senior stakeholders, external clients, and internal technology stakeholders across regions.
  • Securities/trading domain exposure a plus.


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150,000-$300,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

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