The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

VP Software Engineer - Cloud Connectivity - Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in software engineering, ideally with 3+ years in AWS services.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Familiarity with enterprise software development processes.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline.
  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Strong scripting skills with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and release new cloud platform features.
  • Build connectivity products and migrate workloads to public cloud.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address cloud migration challenges.
  • Architect and deploy highly available and resilient multi-tier applications.
  • Manage risks and issues throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Communicate best practices for public cloud application development.
  • Oversee the full lifecycle of software components from requirements to release.

Benefits

  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives for professional growth.
  • Training and development opportunities available.
  • Wellness and personal finance programs offered.
  • Mindfulness programs to support employee well-being.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Cloud Platform

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Responsibilities And Qualifications:

As part of our global Cloud Infrastructure team you will work on various components as a Software Engineer. Your role includes specification, development, testing and releasing of new features. The team owns the platforms throughout the lifecycle. You are expected to contribute to the vision, understand our customers' needs, business goals, product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within the team. We expect the successful candidate to deliver high quality software and to be passionate about software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development, security and the mechanisms to design safe, resilient and highly-available cloud native services.

Key Responsibilities:
  • You are a hands on Cloud engineer who will focus on building the connectivity products, Solutions and migrating workloads to the public cloud.
  • You have working knowledge on atleast one of the cloud service provider AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI and design principles.
  • You thrive in a multi-project environment, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud.
  • You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures.
  • You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle.
  • You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
  • You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.
  • You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment
  • Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
  • Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products.
  • Build services to integrate on-premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready-to-consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services.
  • Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise.
  • Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure.
  • Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm.


Basic Qualifications:

  • Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 3+ years of familiarity with AWS services.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline).
  • Proficiency working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Experience working with Configuration management automation tools like Ansible.
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
  • Experience with Javascript / Typescript / Node.
  • Strong networking background (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, routing protocols).
  • Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies.
  • Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Exposure to containerization tools (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
  • Basic understanding of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack).
  • General knowledge of networking, security, and system administration in cloud environments.
  • Skilled in implementing architectural governance.
  • Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders.
  • Comfort with agile operating models.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • AWS or any CSP certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect - Associate).
  • Deep knowledge of Cloud Native Networking, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategy
  • Understanding of Solution Engineering practices.
  • Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript, NPM, CloudFormation.
  • Understanding of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
  • Basic experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in AWS.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Good communication and documentation skills.
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

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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