What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.
Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.
Who We Look For
Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
SDLC and Runtime (SDLCR) focuses on delivering engineer-first, scalable platforms for job scheduling, Compute-as-a-Service, file transfer, firmwide software distribution and software development. This includes the CI/CD ecosystems, based around the GitLab and proprietary platforms.
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a suite of products that provides end-to-end build and deploy tooling for Engineers in the firm. It provides a modern, secure and highly available plant that facilitates source control, code review, build, test and production activation.
The primary customer base for the SDLCR tools are Engineers within Goldman Sachs. Key customers are the Global Banking & Markets as well as the Asset & Wealth Management and the Platform Solutions group.
You will be working at the heart of the developer experience, ensuring the code that is written by thousands of GS engineers is versioned securely, reviewed expertly, compiles fast, tests comprehensively and is distributed widely. You will deliver CI/CD solutions that support cloud native development. You could be working with cutting edge build technology from AWS & Google, or the latest cloud technology in one of more backend languages including Java, Golang, and Python.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Technical ownership of proprietary in-house built CI tooling for GS developers.
- Design and develop features and improvements to CI tools
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain and improve the functions and quality of service
- Ensure that CI products are secure, tested, and that meets or exceeds industry standard performance and availability
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- Diagnose and solve technical problems, both within the core GitLab environment, and the associated GS technical eco-system
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN WHEN YOU JOIN US
- Cloud native architectures in AWS.
- Experience with large scale build systems and deployment paradigms
- Expertise in commercial / open source build systems (Gradle / Bazel / Make) and strong knowledge of software change management systems
- Experience of DevOps, SRE, infrastructure (storage / networks / etc.)
- Design and implement mid to large scale distributed systems
- Partner with and provide technical guidance on best practices to the GS engineering community, revenue aligned Engineering teams, and operations teams
CORE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- VP: Min. 8 years of relevant industry experience respectively
- Ability to use and familiarity with GitLab
- Professional experience with Cloud deployment patterns. Specifically AWS cloud constructs, as well as Terraform
- General knowledge of multiple languages, and in-depth strong programming skills of at least one of: Golang, Erlang, Java, Python, C, C++, Java
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience with all stages in the lifecycle of developing and running large distributed systems
- Experience with diagnosis, prevention and management of performance, availability and scale of mid- to large-sized systems
- Passionate about the software development process and facilitating high frequency / high quality change across a vibrant and diverse user community
- Strong written and verbal English language skills
ATTITUDES WE WANT
- Ability to thrive in our global organization in an output driven, fast paced, hybrid and asynchronous work place
- Team player, eager to work in a global organization.
- Ability to communicate technical and organizational challenges and propose high quality solutions
- Comfort working in an agile environment
- Self-managed and good organization skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- BSc, MSc or PhD in relevant field (Computer Science, Maths, Physics)
- Highly knowledgeable about running key business applications on Linux platforms and Linux internals.
- Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, etc)
- Experience with Cloud and Infrastructure as Code technologies - AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
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