Engineering- Foundational Infrastructure-Software Engineering-Associate

Who We Look For

Unix/Compute Engineering is a global team that architects and manages the Linux, Virtualization, and Server Hardware computing platform at Goldman Sachs. The Unix/Compute engineering team works closely with application developers and strategists to build and deploy technology solutions at Goldman Sachs. The team currently supports an internal cloud platform, is developing solutions for deploying applications on public cloud offerings, and is releasing a next-generation compute platform.

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 on this platform safely and securely. You will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster. 

Responsibilities and Qualifications

As part of our global 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. 

How will you fulfill your potential?

• Design, develop and manage services for Unix/Compute platform at the firm
• Architect 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
• Work closely with 1st- and 2nd-level organizations to perform deeply technical troubleshooting
• Develop and implement technical solutions and process improvements to improve reliability and efficiency

Skills and Experience we are looking for.

• Hands-on experience with architecture, implementation and operation of a Linux-based compute environment
• Expertise with Java, Groovy, Spring Framework and Vert.X. Knowledge of CI/CD and Java Build Tools such as Maven, Gradle 
• In-depth knowledge of the Linux OS, advanced network concepts, knowledge of traditional storage platforms, firewalls, and load balancers
• Significant experience using system configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, cfengine, etc.) to manage compute infrastructure at scale
• Demonstrable experience in setting and meeting project goals when implementing and integrating complex technology concepts
• Strong leadership skills, ability to motivate team members and manage projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling, such as CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK or Kubernetes
• 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
• Overall industry experience of 10 years which includes Technical leadership experience of 2+ years