Secure SDLC Associate - Dallas - Technology Risk

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is seeking a security-focused technology risk professional to join the Secure SDLC team in Dallas. You will enable developers to build secure solutions and enforce high development security standards across the firm.

You will lead static and dynamic analysis efforts, explore AI-augmented tooling, and drive secure design reviews and testing across all phases of SDLC. This role blends hands-on engineering with risk management.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related field.
• One year of experience with a Master's degree or three years with a Bachelor's degree.
• Experience implementing security in the SDLC and risk-focused development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support static and dynamic analysis and security awareness across all stages of the Secure SDLC.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of AI-augmented capabilities within Secure SDLC services, including tooling (SAST, DAST, IaC, Control Gating).
• Drive the integration and adoption of embedded application security controls within the SDLC ecosystem.
• Interface with Business Units to help build secure applications and remediate issues detected by automated tools.
• Develop, enhance and maintain the Firm's Secure SDLC solutions for global businesses.
• Design and implement high-quality, scalable security-focused technology solutions leveraging internal and open-source services.
• Assist in requirements gathering, testing, deployment, and QA across projects.

Skills

Secure SDLC

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Static/Dynamic analysis

AI-augmented tooling

Security architecture

Education

Master's degree in CS/Info Sec/related

Bachelor's degree in CS/related

Tools

SAST

DAST

IaC security

Job description

Job Description

Goldman Sachs Technology Risk leads threat and risk management initiatives that help protect the firm and our clients from information and cyber security risks. Our team equips the firm with the knowledge and tools to measure risk, identify and mitigate threats and potential risks, and prevent the introduction of antipatterns into the firm's technology stack.

Specifically, the Technology Risk Secure SDLC team is accountable for enabling developers across the firm to build secure technology solutions and platforms that hold up to the highest development security practices and standards. You will join a progressive team that continues to push the development of security controls within engineering functions and across the business, interact with all parts of the firm, and gain experience and knowledge that will facilitate your career growth and make an impact on various initiatives across the firm.

We are looking for a self-motivated candidate with a strong technical background in information security and risk management, and the adaptability to thrive with emerging technologies in a fast-paced development environment, to join a team focused on implementing security-by design.

Job Duties

• Lead and support the implementation of static and dynamic analysis, as well as security awareness initiatives across all stages of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (Secure SDLC).
• Support the evaluation and adoption of AI-augmented capabilities within Secure SDLC services, including static and dynamic analysis tooling (SAST, DAST, IaC, Control Gating, etc.).
• Drive the integration and adoption of embedded application security controls within SDLC ecosystem.
• Interface with Business Units to help build secure applications and remediate issues identified by automated tools.
• Develop, enhance, support and maintain the Firm's Secure SDLC solutions in support of its global businesses.
• Design and implement high-quality, scalable and thoughtful technology solutions leveraging both internal and open-source services.
• Assist in requirements gathering, user experience refinement, development, testing (unit, integration and regression), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Deployment, and Quality Assurance (QA).
• Work with internal teams to help develop secure solution designs.
• Identify new external technologies that can be used to transform our financial businesses and internal platforms in innovative and disruptive ways.
• Work in all phases of the Secure SDLC to meet internal and regulatory requirements.
• Design, implement and maintain robust testing suites to enable secure, complete, and scalable solutions across our business lines.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies (including but not limited to) agentic AI workflows and their potential application to Secure SDLC processes.
• Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related role.

OR

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.

Special Skills and/or Licenses Required to Perform the Job

Prior experience should include one (1) year (with a Master's degree) or three (3) years (with a Bachelor's degree) with:

• Application and infrastructure architecture and security (on premise and Cloud).
• Application security best practices including OWASP Top 10, OWASP LLM Top 10, and CWE.
• Application security vulnerabilities and controls to remediate risks.
• Assessing and mitigating software security threat vectors, threat modeling, attack surface analysis, security design reviews, source code reviews, penetration testing or vulnerability assessments.
• Working in shift left environment to help embed security in Design phase to implement security controls within system architecture.
• Conducting infrastructure or application security risk assessments.
• Foundational understanding of Large Language Model (LLM) behaviors, including common strengths and weaknesses (e.g., hallucination, behavior inconsistency, context limitations, reproducibility and verification, etc.).
• General familiarity with agentic AI workflows and their role in software development and security tooling.

Job Info

• Job Identification 179647
• Job Category Associate
• Posting Date 08/12/2026, 01:28 PM
• Locations Dallas, TX, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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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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