The Core Engineering-L2-Bengaluru-Vice President-Software Engineering
Goldman Sachs · Posted Nov 6
Investment banking, securities, asset management, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Goldman Sachs Site Reliability Engineering team combines software and systems engineering to build, run, and maintain high-performing, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role sits within Compliance Engineering SRE and focuses on production reliability, automation, observability, and capacity planning. The engineer will collaborate with engineering teams to improve services, reduce toil, and manage incidents using SLIs and SLOs.
What you will do
- Proactive management of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity and overall system health.
- Shaping software before go-live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
- Scaling and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
- Practicing sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture.
- Identifying and building improvements to system behavior, control and monitoring tools.
- Defining and maintaining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to quantify and manage service reliability.
- Engineering solutions to reduce "toil" through advanced automation and self-healing system capabilities.
- Conducting capacity modeling and performance tuning to ensure systems meet future demand.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python and Perl.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
- Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
- Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.
- Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry).
- Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
- Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment.
- Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
- Highly motivated, pro-active and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
- Strong, committed and reliable team player and strong communicator, able to take direction but also willing to contribute to discussions on design and strategy.
- Possess client-facing skills to be able to deal with and form good relationships with the business and other technology groups through day-to-day support and project work.
- Ability to multi-task and be effective working in a fast-paced environment.
- Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
- Experience in some of the following is desired: SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.
- Experience with Chaos Engineering principles and fault-injection testing to verify system resilience.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and managed services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Understanding of Error Budgeting and its application in balancing feature velocity with system stability.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services across investment banking, securities, investment management, and consumer banking to a diverse client base. Established in 1869 and headquartered in New York City, the firm serves corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.
- Industry
- Investment Banking
- Company size
- 47400+ employees
- Founded
- 1869
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
President and Chief Operating Officer
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