Engineering - Cloud Development - 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 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.

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:

• 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 finance industry.

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong technical ability, willingness to learn and evolve your skills with advances in technology.
• Bachelors' or Masters 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of work experience with Typescript, Java, Python and AWS.
• Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling, such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, and AWS CDK.
• Experience with security, isolation and multi-tenant design of distributed cloud services.
• Familiarity with software artifact and container image lifecycle management and governance.
• Understanding of RESTful API design best practices and experience in developing them.
• Familiarity with cloud network architectures and the integration with hybrid cloud networking.
• Experience with Server-less platforms such as AWS Lambda, AWS Batch etc.

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.

Job Info

• Job Identification 161886
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 02/11/2026, 04:54 PM
• Locations Seattle, WA, United States