Secure SDLC Associate - Dallas - Technology Risk

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally

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.