VP Site Reliability Engineering: Lead Resilient, Scalable Platforms

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for The Core Engineering team in New York, NY. The role focuses on building reliable, observable platforms and reducing downtime through distributed systems expertise, automation, and resilient design.

Strong coding in Java/Python/Node.js, IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is essential, with hands-on cloud experience across AWS/GCP/Azure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, System Engineering, or related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in software engineering / SRE leadership.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Collaborate with product developers to architect highly available, fault-tolerant systems and introduce patterns like circuit breakers and rate limiting.
• Reduce operational toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities.
• Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, and reliability reviews.
• Lead the response to complex, multi-system production incidents with blameless post-mortems.
• Promote sustainable operations with on-call models and clear escalation paths.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Observability

Distributed systems

Toil reduction

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog/OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for The Core Engineering team in New York, NY. The role focuses on building reliable, observable platforms and reducing downtime through distributed systems expertise, automation, and resilient design.

Strong coding in Java/Python/Node.js, IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is essential, with hands-on cloud experience across AWS/GCP/Azure.