Network Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Electronic Trading Platform

Goldman Sachs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Wellness offerings

Disability accommodations

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Network Engineer for their Electronic Trading Platform team in New York. The role involves architecting high-performance distributed trading networks and managing senior stakeholder relationships across trading desks and external clients.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree, CCNP certification, and over 7 years of experience in latency-sensitive environments. The expected salary range is $150,000-$300,000, with eligibility for discretionary bonuses.

Qualifications

• 7+ years supporting mission-critical, latency-sensitive production environments.
• Extensive experience with colocation connectivity and cross-connect provisioning.
• Proven track record with production change management practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver high-performance, large-scale distributed trading networks.
• Own senior stakeholder relationships across trading desks.
• Lead incident response and operational excellence for network infrastructure.

Skills

End-to-end infrastructure delivery

BGP

Multicast routing

Network design

Strong communication skills

Analytical problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Ansible

Bash

Python

Nagios

Grafana

Job description

What We Do

Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) team provides tailored infrastructure solutions for the firm's global markets businesses; we engineer and operate low latency trading environments globally. We leverage modern infrastructure, automation, and observability to optimize performance and manage risk on behalf of our clients. The team's areas of responsibility encompass server hardware, Linux, networking, configuration management and packet capture analytics. The team directly interfaces with senior business stakeholders and external clients of the firm.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Architect and deliver high-performance, large-scale distributed trading networks, setting technical direction and driving adoption of automation at scale.
• Own senior stakeholder relationships across trading desks, technology leadership, and external clients - translating business requirements into robust network solutions and driving commercial outcomes.
• Lead incident response and operational excellence for mission-critical network infrastructure, establishing best practices for change management, capacity planning, and risk mitigation.
• Drive strategic initiatives including network architecture evolution, vendor and technology evaluation, and cross-regional standardization across global data center and exchange connectivity footprints.
• Use AI‑assisted tools to support network automation, configuration management, and observability workflows.
• Expand beyond your domain. We have broad engineering remits, affording opportunities to explore innovative hardware, software, and emerging tooling.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• CCNP or equivalent accreditation with deep expertise in end-to-end infrastructure delivery, including BGP, multicast routing, switching, and network design at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from design through production delivery.
• Strong communication and analytical problem‑solving skills with the ability to influence at senior levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years supporting mission‑critical, latency‑sensitive production environments.
• Extensive experience with colocation connectivity, cross‑connect provisioning, carrier diversity, and exchange/venue connectivity models across multiple regions.
• Proven track record with production change management practices and strong knowledge of SDLC.
• Advanced scripting (bash/python) and configuration management (Ansible, Salt) experience building tooling and driving automation with an Infrastructure-as-Code mindset.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted development and automation tools.
• Experience with open source monitoring and metrics collection (Nagios, TICK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) with the ability to define and drive observability strategy.
• Comfortable operating in and optimising Linux‑based environments.
• Production operations: leading incident response, triaging and troubleshooting complex, multi‑layered network issues with a focus on root cause elimination.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as the role interfaces directly with senior stakeholders, external clients, and internal technology stakeholders across regions.
• Securities/trading domain exposure a plus.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States‑based position is $150,000-$300,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year‑end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non‑temporary, full‑time and part‑time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found.

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