What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. For us, it's all about bringing together people who are curious, collaborative and have the drive to make things possible for our clients and communities.

Overview

Controls engineering -Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, Controls engineering SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services offered , and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.

• Adhere to and drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
• Develop, support, improve & administer the Firm's primary business-critical control infrastructure
• Create and support automation tooling to improve the reliability of the platform and to increase the productivity of the team.
• Provide critical day-to-day support for a massive scale, distributed system
• Assess monitoring & alert signals to determine impact and risk to the business and contribute to the incident management process
• The successful candidate will have outstanding verbal and written communications, a natural ability to learn in a fast-paced environment, and will be a self-starter with plenty of initiative.

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and / or systems engineering
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting
• Experience with algorithms, data structures and software design
• Experience with UNIX operating systems internals and / or networking
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based infrastructure (AWS or Azure Cloud).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and container networking.
• Proficiency in automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
• Proficient in version control systems like Git, including branching, merging, and pull request workflows. Familiarity with Git-based platforms like GitHub or GitLab.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) are desirable.

• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation
• Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership
• Coding beyond simple scripts
• Solving novel problems from first principles