Compliance Engineering, Dev Ops, Vice President, Dallas

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation entitlements

On-site fitness centers

Medical advocacy service

Child care centers

Financial support for education

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is currently seeking a Vice President for Compliance Engineering, Dev Ops based in Dallas. This role involves proactive management and improvement of production services, where you will spearhead efforts to enhance system reliability and efficiency using automation and robust engineering principles.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, and a strong foundation in technologies such as Java, Python, and Docker. Candidates will need to demonstrate their ability to solve complex problems and communicate effectively within a performance-oriented team.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering and SRE roles.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate tasks.
• Knowledge of networking and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage production services and system availability.
• Conduct capacity modeling and performance tuning.
• Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs).

Skills

Java

Python

Perl

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Automated testing

Linux environment

Observability stacks

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Compliance Engineering, Dev Ops, Vice President, Dallas

Job Description

WHAT WE DO:

We are Compliance Engineering, a global team of more than 300 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission‑critical problems. We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that prevent, 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 the Compliance application portfolio.

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.
• Conducting capacity modeling and performance tuning to ensure systems meet future demand.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Technical Skills:

• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

Job Info

• Job Identification 170771
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 05/14/2026, 08:56 PM
• Locations Dallas, TX, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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