Engineering - Cloud Security - Security Architecture & Platform Engineering - Associate - Seattle

Job Description

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 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Security Platform Implementation:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud architecture aligned with NIST frameworks and industry-recognized cloud security standards, ensuring compliance, resilience, and least-privilege access across cloud environments
• Build and deploy cloud security posture management infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK)
• Implement integrations with enterprise services including risk management systems, monitoring platforms, SIEM, and compliance frameworks
• Deploy and maintain security policies, automated compliance validation, and remediation workflows

Policy-as-Code & Automation:

• Demonstrates thought leadership: Guides and upskills other engineers and clients in cloud best practices; demonstrates expertise with automation and infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Migrate infrastructure security controls to policy-as-code frameworks with automated testing and validation
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines for shift-left security and pre-deployment validation
• Optimize security policies during migration for improved coverage and reduced false positives
• Implement policy versioning, change management workflows, and automated deployment pipelines

Secure Infrastructure & SDLC:

• Understanding of AWS
• Support secure-by-default infrastructure initiatives for standardized cloud account provisioning
• Integrate security controls into Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with automated gates and validation
• Implement security baselines and automated compliance checks for new cloud accounts and services
• Provide self-service security scanning and remediation tools for development teams

DevOps & Platform Engineering:

• Past enterprise level experience in DevOps, Software, Infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineering (2-4 years)
• Proficient in infrastructure as code practices using technologies such as CDK, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or SaltStack
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch or integrating security controls into existing pipelines
• Hands-on experience developing and improving all phases of the software development/delivery lifecycle
• Strong grasp of container technology including container orchestration

Authentication & Access Management:

• Support implementation of cloud-native authentication and authorization frameworks for service flows
• Assist with service identity onboarding and certificate lifecycle management
• Execute migration procedures and validate authentication flows for cloud-native access patterns
• Troubleshoot authentication issues, performance bottlenecks, and integration challenges
• Provide technical support to application teams during authentication framework migrations

Observability & Operational Support:

• Proficient in one or more enterprise scale observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, FluentD, ELK
• Experience maintaining and improving the reliability of applications and infrastructure
• Provide regional timezone coverage for cloud access and security platform operational issues
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for security incidents and platform support
• Monitor platform health, respond to alerts, and escalate critical incidents as needed
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation workflows

Collaboration & Documentation:

• Ability to document solutions, cloud architectural patterns, and best practices to ensure that clients have guidance as needed
• Proven ability to partner with cloud hyperscale partners to define and troubleshoot cloud architectures and service enablements
• Create runbooks for operational scenarios, troubleshooting guides, and training materials
• Collaborate with global team members for consistent implementation across regions

Software Development & Problem Solving:

• Solid understanding of Microservices and APIs
• Develop automation scripts for operational tasks, security workflows, and remediation processes
• Build dashboards and reporting mechanisms for security posture visibility
• Eager to problem solve and troubleshoot issues that may arise day to day

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 2-4 years of relevant professional experience with at least 1+ 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
• Experience performing and/or leading root cause analysis following incidents
• Experience in Security or Data engineering preferably in an SRE/DevOps environment
• Practiced in Java, Python, Javascript / Typescript / Node
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads and engineering stakeholders
• Comfort with agile operating model and DevOps culture
• Understanding of authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, mTLS, certificate-based authentication)
• Familiarity with cloud security standards (CIS Benchmarks, NIST frameworks) and compliance requirements

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this Seattle, Washington, United States-based position is $115000-$180000. 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.