Engineering - Cloud Development - Software Engineer - Associate - Seattle

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.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting‑edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a Dev Ops culture and contribute to customer‑centric product development. They will work closely with cross‑functional teams and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast‑paced global environment.

• Design, develop and manage services in public cloud.
• Develop safe, resilient and highly‑available distributed services.
• Write technical specifications, work with several teams and manage technical dependencies and drive design meetings with various stakeholders for consensus.
• Collaborate with business software engineering teams on solving business problems via the architecture and engineering of cloud‑native applications.
• Engage with the larger Core Engineering organization to create and deliver usable, safe cloud‑native engineering patterns with associated guardrails and operational practices.
• Create, communicate, and promote best practices for public cloud native development across the firm.
• Partner with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure to shape the future of public cloud services for the finance industry.

• Strong technical ability, willingness to learn and evolve your skills with advances in technology.
• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with at least 1 year of relevant professional experience.
• Proficiency in designing, developing, and testing software in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Python, or Golang; open to using and learning multiple languages.
• Expertise with Linux, containers, system security and automation with scripting languages.
• Experience architecting, designing, administering, or developing applications in Amazon Web Services.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as the interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams.
• Ability to reason about performance, security, and process interactions in complex distributed systems.
• Ability to understand and effectively debug both new and existing solutions.

• Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years of work experience with Type Script, Golang, Python and AWS.
• Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycle and infrastructure‑as‑code tooling, such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with security, isolation and multi‑tenant design of…