Engineering - Cloud Connectivity - Software Engineer - Vice President - Dallas

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.

Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem‑solvers, building solutions in Artificial Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting‑edge platform that enables Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to a platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.

As part of our global Cloud Infrastructure team you will work on various components as a Software Engineer. Your role includes specification, development, testing and releasing of new features. The team owns the platforms throughout the lifecycle. You are expected to contribute to the vision, understand our customers’ needs, business goals, product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within the team.

We expect the successful candidate to deliver high quality software and to be passionate about software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development, security and the mechanisms to design safe, resilient and highly‑available cloud native services.

• You are a hands on Cloud engineer who will focus on building the connectivity products, solutions and migrating workloads to the public cloud.
• You have working knowledge on at least one of the cloud service provider AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI and design principles.
• You thrive in a multi‑project environment, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud.
• You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi‑tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures.
• You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle.
• You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision‑making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast‑paced, ambiguous and often multi‑directional work environment.
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Collaborate with a globally‑distributed cross‑functional team in building customer‑centric products.
• Build services to integrate on‑premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready‑to‑consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services.
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving.
• Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise.
• Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure.
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm.

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired)…