Engineering - Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Developer - Vice President - Dallas

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our engineers solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems in financial services via collaboration and innovation. We build parallel systems, analyze oceans of data, architect and implement scalable and reliable infrastructure, proactively guard against cyber threats, and continuously deliver technology solutions to connect people and capital for a better economy.

The Engineering division 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 and lead technology possibilities? Start here.

Who We Are

Core Engineering provides global thought leadership, solution development, delivery, and support for a broad suite of technology products and services at Goldman Sachs. It leverages global expertise to develop leading-edge technology solutions that meet business demands and differentiate the firm's technology offerings in the marketplace. Core Engineering enables the operation of the firm by managing an extensive compute platform and global communication networks, while addressing technology, compliance, and reputational risk and resilience.

The Cloud Enablement team within Core Engineering is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting, and building a cutting-edge platform that enables 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 a platform that programmatically enforces safety, security, and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

As part of our global Cloud Enablement 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.

How will you fulfill your potential?

• Design, develop, and manage services in public cloud.
• Architect safe, resilient, and highly-available distributed services.
• Write technical specifications, work with several teams, and manage technical dependencies and drive design meetings with various stakeholders for consensus.
• Partner with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure to shape the future of public cloud services for the finance industry.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong technical ability, willingness to learn and evolve your skills with advances in technology.
• Programming expertise in Java, Go, or JavaScript.
• Expertise with Linux, containers, system security, and automation with scripting languages.
• Strong leadership skills, ability to motivate team members and manage projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling, such as CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with security, isolation, and multi-tenant design of distributed cloud services.
• Familiarity with software artifact and container image lifecycle management and governance.
• Understanding of RESTful API design best practices and experience in developing them.
• Technical leadership experience of 2+ years.