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 multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable 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 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 DevOps 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.
Responsibilities and Qualifications
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- You are a hands on lead engineer who will focus on developing and deploying workloads onto public cloud
- You have working knowledge of AWS services and software design principles including architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient.
- You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle
- Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products.
- Manage the end to end 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.
- Communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors/Masters degree in in Computer Science or equivalent professional work experience.
- Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience with at least 2 years of familiarity with AWS services.
- Hands-on experience in designing, developing and deploying large scale applications onto public cloud preferably AWS
- Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders
- Experience in leveraging Developer AI tools
About Goldman Sachs
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
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 several opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience
- At least 2 years of familiarity with AWS services
- Hands-on experience designing, developing and deploying large-scale applications onto public cloud (preferably AWS)
- Proficient understanding of software development, security, and designing safe, resilient, highly-available cloud-native services
- Working knowledge of AWS services and software design principles, including architecting and deploying multi-tiered highly available applications
- Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads and executive-level stakeholders
- Experience leveraging Developer AI tools
- Hands-on lead engineering experience in a DevOps culture and customer-centric product development
Goldman Sachs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Goldman Sachs and has not been reviewed or approved by Goldman Sachs.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life and accident insurance, with multiple plan options and most premiums subsidized; coverage often starts on day one. Wellness resources, on-site health centers in some locations, and EAP access reinforce the depth of health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Family care includes on-site childcare in some offices, expectant parent resources, and transitional programs for returning parents. Feedback suggests parental leave is very generous, with reports of around 20 weeks paid leave and stipends for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility-related services.
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Retirement Support — The firm provides a 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions and broad financial education to help employees plan for retirement. Resources also support saving for education and preparing for unexpected events.
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What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, we believe progress is everyone’s business. That’s why we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices in all major financial centers around the world. More about our company can be found at www.goldmansachs.com
