Compliance Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer SRE, Associate, Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Goldman Sachs Group is seeking a passionate SRE Engineer to ensure system reliability and automate processes. This role involves proactive management of production services, shaping software before launch, and incident management in a collaborative environment.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, 3-4 years of experience, and skills in Java, Python, or Perl. The firm values problem-solving abilities and strong communication skills.

Join us to tackle operational challenges using cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic team!

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts.
• Proficiency with observability stacks.

Responsibilities

• Manage production services by measuring and monitoring availability.
• Shape software before go-live through system design consulting.
• Practice sustainable incident management.

Skills

Java

Python

Perl

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Automating routine tasks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Compliance Engineering

We are Compliance Engineering, a global team of more than 500 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. We have access to the latest technology and massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, and we 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

As an SRE Engineer you will fill 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, facilitate fast delivery of new services, and reduce 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.

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

• 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.
• 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-pace environment.
• Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn.

Goldman Sachs is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html