Engineering - Cloud Development - Software Engineer - Vice President - 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.

Cloud Platform 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 Development 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.

• 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 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Proficiency in designing, developing, and testing software in one or more of Java, Type Script, Python; 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.
• Ability to independently deliver on Product Roadmap, Operational Stability and Execution Strategy.

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