Engineering - SDLC Engineering - Ephemeral Environments - Software Engineer - Vice President - [...] (Salt Lake City)

DEVELOPER JOURNEY STRATEGY AT GOLDMAN SACHS

The Developer Journey Strategy focuses on investing in the developer experience to minimize friction, promote standardization, and leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enable seamless delivery. By streamlining processes, implementing consistent practices, and integrating AI‑driven tools and solutions, we empower developers to efficiently build and run products and platforms. This strategy aims to enhance productivity, foster innovation, and ensure high‑quality outcomes by providing developers with the advanced tools, resources, and support they need to succeed. The incorporation of AI not only automates routine tasks and optimizes workflows but also provides predictive insights and intelligent recommendations, further enhancing the development process.

SDLC ENGINEERING

Part of Goldman Sachs' Core Engineering group's function is to provide best in class language support and tooling for our engineering community to facilitate the building, testing and deployment of their products. We strive for our tooling to improve product quality, developer productivity and increase opportunities for collaboration, while reducing toil and unrewarding work. Our aim is to innovate and drive technology solutions that will impact the bottom line for the firm. By joining us, you will be part of a diverse global technical team focusing on solving critical business problems. You will be working at the heart of the developer experience, ensuring the code that is written by thousands of GS engineers is versioned securely, reviewed expertly, compiled quickly, tested comprehensively, and distributed widely.

WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING ON

The Ephemeral Environments team's mission is to provide seamless production‑like runtimes for developers to be able to test their software, as well as provision consistent environments for longer‑lived testing. Among other things, you will be designing, building, and deploying tools for developers to quickly iterate their container‑based development cycles, which will help them to shift testing left and be more productive, more safely.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 8+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, or similar role
• General knowledge of multiple languages, and in‑depth strong programming skills of at least one of: Java, GoLang, Erlang, Python, C, C++
• Good knowledge of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
• Familiarity with continuous integration, deployment pipelines, monitoring and observability. Proven capability and interest in building modern tools that increase a business' ability to grow based on their ability to build, deliver, maintain, and scale through value delivered via software.
• A passion for enabling builders to build software.
• An interest in working with our teams and partners all over the world.
• An ability to define and execute on a long‑term strategy with incremental releases adding customer benefit at every stage. You aren't afraid to dream big, and know how to start small.
• You are comfortable working in teams in an environment where uncertainty is certain and where decisions have to be made quickly but responsibly.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building, fine tuning, and deploying LLM‑based solutions is preferred
• A background in designing, or working with APIs and other developer‑facing products that focus on efficiency and developer experience.
• BSc / MSc / PhD in relevant field (Computer Science, Math, Physics)
• Experience with DevOps, SRE, infrastructure as code, or similar is helpful
• Experience with all stages in the lifecycle of developing and running software systems

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

• Work with modern technologies to enhance coding efficiency, productivity and developer experience
• Be part of a forward‑thinking team that values continuous improvement and commercial impact
• Develop expertise in areas such as CI/CD, SDLC, containerization, GenAI, and cloud computing
• Stay updated with the latest technological advancements and best practices by engaging with industry leaders and vendors
• Tackle real engineering challenges, contribute to globally scalable platforms, supporting global operations and enhancing the developer experience