The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Associate - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a mid‑level SRE Engineer within Core Engineering to join a global team of 2500+ engineers. You will help design, build and run high‑performing, distributed systems with strong emphasis on automation, observability and scalable infrastructure.

Collaboration with cross‑functional teams across risk analytics, budgeting and reporting is essential. The role focuses on reliability, automation and continuous improvement in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of experience in similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, Linux environment, and knowledge of algorithms/data structures.

Responsibilities

• Proactive management of production services including monitoring availability and health.
• Contribute to system design reviews, capacity planning and launch readiness.
• Scale and evolve systems to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
• Maintain blameless postmortems and drive incident management improvements.
• Build monitoring/automation tools and reduce toil.
• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs to measure service reliability.
• Collaborate with teams to automate and harden platforms.

Skills

Java

Python

Perl

Node.js

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

WHAT WE DO:

We are Core Engineering, a global team of more than 2500 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems. We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that produce metrics, analyse risk, curate financial reports, enable people process, help with budgeting and financial planning and also detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive front end and Big Data applications. The firm is making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core application to cloud

Job Description

We are Core Engineering, a global team of more than 2500 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems. We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that produce metrics, analyse risk, curate financial reports, enable people process, help with budgeting and financial planning and also detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive front end and Big Data applications. The firm is making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core application to cloud

SRE at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build run, and maintain high performant, distributed, fault tolerant systems. As a SRE Engineer you will be filling a mission-critical role ensuring that our systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve our production services, facilitating fast delivery of new services, and reducing downtime. SRE utilizes automation, tools and solid engineering principles to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure and eliminate operational work. We are looking for passionate, curious, driven engineers who thrive on solving operational problems and improving efficiency and would like to apply their skills to Compliance Engineering SRE.

Job Responsibilities

• 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.

Technical Skills

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, perl and node.js.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
• Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry).
• 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.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and managed services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Understanding of various SRE terminologies e.g. Error Budgeting and its application in balancing feature velocity with system stability.

Interpersonal Skills

• 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.
• Ability to multi‑task and be effective working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn.

About Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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.

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