Site Reliability Engineer - Controls Engineering - Vice President - Global Banking & Markets

SRE - GBM Public - Dallas

Overview

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services, and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adhere to and drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
• Develop, support, improve & administer the Firm's primary business-critical control infrastructure
• Create and support automation tooling to improve the reliability of the platform and to increase the productivity of the team.
• Provide critical day-to-day support for a massive scale, distributed system
• Assess monitoring & alert signals to determine impact and risk to the business and contribute to the incident management process
• The successful candidate will have outstanding verbal and written communications, a natural ability to learn in a fast-paced environment, and will be a self-starter with plenty of initiative.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and / or systems engineering
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting
• Experience with algorithms, data structures and software design
• Experience with UNIX operating systems internals and / or networking

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation
• Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership
• Coding beyond simple scripts
• Solving novel problems from first principles