The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Site Reliability Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Vice President

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software/reliability engineering experience, preferably with Java 17+
  • Proven ability to identify and mitigate operational risks in financial services
  • Strong communication skills for coordinating diverse teams
  • Experience managing high-availability production environments
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS) and container orchestration
  • Familiarity with AI models and engineering tools
  • Knowledge of event-driven and distributed systems

Responsibilities

  • Define and uphold Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for trading services
  • Automate operational tasks to reduce risk and enhance resilience
  • Lead incident response and coordinate with global teams during crises
  • Design high-availability, cloud-native services with built-in observability
  • Develop event-driven architectures for trade lifecycle management
  • Implement chaos engineering and resilience testing
  • Utilize AI agents to optimize software development and operations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive wellness offerings
  • Support for work-life balance
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Strong commitment to employee experience
  • Robust medical, dental, and retirement plans
Full Job Description
Job Description

Within the firm's Global Banking & Markets business, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team ensures the availability, resilience, and performance of core business services that underpin a global 24×7 trading operation. Working across Global Markets' front, middle, and back office functions, you will engineer reliability while balancing stringent non-functional demands for availability, latency, and resilience as well as complex, evolving business requirements.

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Your Impact
  • Own reliability outcomes: Define and defend Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and reliability standards for critical trading services, with risk always front of mind.
  • Reduce risk and toil: Identify systemic risks before they materialize, automate away repetitive operational work, and strengthen the resilience posture of the platform.
  • Connect and communicate: Act as a trusted coordinator during incidents - rapidly mobilizing the right engineers, domain experts, and stakeholders across a globally distributed organization, and communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Multiply your output with AI: Orchestrate AI coding and operations agents to accelerate root-cause analysis, remediation, and automation while maintaining mastery, quality, and production fitness over all AI-generated work.
  • Build for the future: Design and operate high-availability, multi-region, event-driven services on a modern cloud-native platform, setting the reliability and architectural standard for years to come.


What You Will Do
  • Design, build, and operate high-availability, multi-region, cloud-native services with security and comprehensive observability (metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging) built in at every layer.
  • Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive blameless post-incident reviews and translate findings into durable engineering improvements.
  • Lead incident response for latency-sensitive, high-throughput trade lifecycle systems - quickly diagnosing issues, coordinating cross-functional responders, and communicating status to stakeholders.
  • Develop event-driven architectures, multi-stage processing pipelines, and optimized data paths for high-throughput trade lifecycle management.
  • Apply strong risk acumen to change management, capacity planning, and resilience testing (chaos engineering, failover, and BCP drills).
  • Partner with engineers, domain experts, and global stakeholders to understand production processes, challenge entrenched assumptions in a cloud-centric, AI-driven world, and drive modernization.
  • Multiply your impact with a modern, AI-centric toolchain, orchestrating AI agents across the SDLC and operations to rapidly comprehend large codebases, generate production-quality automation, and accelerate delivery.


Basic Qualifications
  • 8+ years of professional software / reliability engineering experience, with strong command of at least one major language (Java 17+ preferred), including concurrency, collections, and modern language features.
  • Demonstrated risk acumen - the ability to identify, quantify, and mitigate operational and technical risk in a regulated financial services environment.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-coordination skills - proven ability to connect the right people quickly and drive resolution across geographically distributed, technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proven experience running high-availability production environments: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, on-call, incident command, and post-incident reviews.
  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Working knowledge of AI models and AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode, Devin, Gemini Code Assist), including the ability to govern AI agents, critically assess their output, and maintain quality over AI-generated work.
  • Experience building event-driven and distributed systems, including messaging platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka), delivery guarantees, and resilience strategies.
  • Strong SDLC and automation practices: version control, CI/CD pipelines, automated build/test/deploy workflows, and code quality tooling.
  • Solid observability discipline: application instrumentation, distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics-driven operations.
  • Ability to rapidly navigate, understand, and debug large and unfamiliar codebases - with and without AI assistance.


Preferred Qualifications

Experience with a meaningful subset of the following is highly valued:
  • Reliability & Operations: Chaos engineering, capacity planning, load/performance testing, and production support in high-availability, latency-sensitive environments.
  • Frameworks & Architecture: Spring Boot, gRPC / Protocol Buffers, integration/orchestration frameworks (e.g., Apache Camel, Spring Integration), and pipeline/adapter patterns (retry, dead-letter queues, error isolation).
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), Kubernetes/Docker, JVM tuning for containerized workloads, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm).
  • AI & Automation: Applying AI models to operational use cases - anomaly detection, log analysis, automated remediation, and agentic operations.
  • Observability & Operations: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and SLO tooling.
  • Data & Performance: Data modeling, SQL/NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and performance optimization in latency-sensitive systems.
  • Security: Enterprise security patterns; authentication protocols, mutual TLS, secrets management, and certificate rotation.
  • Domain Knowledge: Equities, post-trade, or financial services experience; trade lifecycle concepts, position management, reconciliation, and multi-system migration environments.
  • Other: Asynchronous / non-blocking I/O frameworks (e.g., Vert.x, Netty), multi-region / BCP architectures, and open-source contribution experience.


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150,000-$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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