The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Site Reliability Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Frontline Production Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$130K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field preferred.
  • 4+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps roles.
  • Proficient in one object-oriented programming language; scripting language experience required.
  • Experience in maintaining high-availability production platforms.
  • Knowledge of US Equities and Options market microstructure and electronic trading.
  • Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and version control systems like Git.
  • Familiarity with networking concepts and protocols is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Measure and monitor the health of production trading services.
  • Design and maintain tools to automate operational tasks.
  • Support services before deployment through system design and reviews.
  • Safely deploy new code and features into the live environment.
  • Liaise between trading desks and technical teams for issue resolution.
  • Drive initiatives for stability, performance, and recovery improvements.
  • Understand market rules to effectively resolve trading issues.
  • Maintain automated tests to ensure environment health.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Access to competitive retirement savings programs.
  • Professional development and continuous learning opportunities.
  • Work-life balance initiatives and support.
  • Engaging team culture and collaborative work environment.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Securities Frontline Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) play a critical role in our fast-paced trading environment. The Frontline SRE Production Engineering team owns the reliability, scalability, and operation of automated trading systems in the production environment. This high-impact role bridges the gap between various teams, such as software engineering, client coverage, compliance, and trading operations. We analyze real-time trading issues, build software tools to eliminate operational toil, and manage robust UAT and Production environments. We constantly challenge the status quo, applying modern software engineering principles to ensure our trading platforms remain resilient and highly scalable.

Who We Look For

As a Frontline SRE, you will be embedded directly within the firm's Global Banking & Markets business. You will play an active role in identifying and resolving inefficiencies in our daily support and operational workflows.

By participating in day-to-day operations, you will diagnose complex system behaviors, coordinate incident responses, manage post-mortems, and oversee safe software deployments. Leveraging your interest in financial markets and the insights gained from managing our production systems, you will directly influence, design, and implement enhancements to our electronic trading product offerings.

We look for creative, collaborative engineers who thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Ideal candidates are innovators and problem-solvers who possess:
  • A strong passion for automation, system efficiency, and clean code.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • A proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement and challenging manual processes.


How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
  • System Ownership: Measure and monitor the availability, latency, performance, and overall health of our production trading services.
  • Toil Reduction: Design, develop, and maintain software tools and frameworks to automate manual tasks and improve operational efficiency.
  • Pre-Release Engineering: Support services before they go live through system design consulting, capacity planning, and rigorous release reviews.
  • Change Management: Safely deploy certified code and new functionalities into the live trading environment.
  • Collaboration: Act as a key liaison between trading desks, quantitative strategists, and external vendors to resolve day-to-day technical issues.
  • Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to enhance the stability, performance, and disaster-recovery readiness of supported platforms.
  • Market Microstructure: Understand US Equities and Options market rules to effectively interact with exchanges and resolve execution issues.
  • Automated Testing: Write and maintain automated checkout tests to validate environment health across trading sessions.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is a plus.
  • At least 4 years of professional experience in an SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps role.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one object-oriented programming language is a plus (e.g., Java, C++) and a scripting language is a must (e.g., Python, Bash).
  • Proven experience supporting and maintaining high-availability production platforms.
  • Domain knowledge of US Equities and Options market microstructure and electronic trading.
  • Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
  • Strong understanding of networking concepts, protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, FIX), and topologies is a plus.
  • Experience with large-scale automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130,000-$250,000. 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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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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