Engineering - Cloud Solutions - Software Engineer - Vice President - Seattle

Cloud Platform Engineer

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 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.

Key responsibilities:

• You are a hands on cloud engineer who will focus on migrating workloads to the public cloud.
• You have working knowledge of AWS services 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.

Basic qualifications:

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 2+ years of familiarity with AWS services.
• B.S. or higher in computer science (or equivalent work experience).
• Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring.
• Skilled in implementing architectural governance.
• Practiced in Javascript / Typescript / Node.
• Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders.
• Comfort with agile operating models.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with cloud migrations.
• Understanding of solution engineering practices.
• Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript, NPM, CloudFormation.

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.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodation for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:

Salary range: The expected base salary for this Seattle, Washington, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits: Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.