The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), The Core Engineering, Vice President, Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$175K — $210K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience with Java, Python, and Perl.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess technical risks.
  • Experience in automated testing and software development life cycle (SDLC) in a Linux environment.
  • Proficiency with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Deep knowledge of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Understanding of networking protocols in distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code frameworks like Terraform.

Responsibilities

  • Manage production services through monitoring system availability and capacity.
  • Shape software design through consulting and planning activities before launch.
  • Scale systems by implementing reliability improvements.
  • Practice sustainable incident management with a focus on blameless postmortems.
  • Identify improvements for system behavior and monitoring tools.
  • Define and maintain Service Level Indicators and Objectives for service reliability.
  • Engineer solutions to automate and reduce repetitive tasks.
  • Conduct capacity modeling for future demand management.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge technology environment.
  • Possibility for continuous learning through hands-on experience.
  • Work with a collaborative team focused on problem-solving and improvement.
  • Engage in a culture that promotes blameless incident reviews.
  • Access to modern infrastructure and tools for professional growth.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems design, and production excellence. In this VP role, you will help engineer highly reliable, observable, and resilient platforms that support critical business services at scale. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to continually improve our production system architecture, facilitate fast delivery of new services, and reduce downtime.

This role is for software engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed system problems, building tools and platforms that make teams more effective, and championing SRE principles (such as SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems) across a large engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
  • Partner with engineering leadership to establish service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
  • Collaborate with product developers to architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems. Conduct architectural reviews and introduce patterns like circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and rate limiting.
  • Reduce operational toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities that remove repetitive manual work.
  • Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, and reliability reviews.
  • Lead the response to complex, multi-system production incidents. Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and drive long-term preventative actions.
  • Promote sustainable operations by helping design healthy on-call models, clear escalation paths, and balanced pager responsibilities.


WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Core Technical Skills
  • Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Python, or Node.js) with a focus on writing clean, maintainable code for tooling and automation.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s), including service meshes and ingress controllers.
  • Advanced experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure), specifically building and operating highly resilient cloud-native architectures.
  • Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or CloudWatch)
  • Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
  • Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment.
Core Competencies & Soft Skills
  • Ability to analyze complex, distributed systems holistically and understand how individual components interact under load.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with product developers, influence architectural decisions, prioritize toil reduction, and drive SRE adoption without direct authority.
  • Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Highly motivated, pro-active and capable of multi-tasking under pressure in a fast-paced environment without compromising quality.
  • Commitment to fostering a blameless culture where failures are treated as opportunities to learn and improve systems.
  • Interest in financial markets and technology.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, System Engineering, or a related technical field that involves programming.
  • 7 to 10 years of experience


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