Engineering - SRE Platforms - Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President - Dallas
Goldman Sachs · Dallas, TX
- On site
- Full-time
- $250,000 / year
- Dallas, TX
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Job highlights
- Lead SRE platform engineering at a major financial firm.
- Architect and build highly available distributed systems.
- Develop advanced automation and tooling solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and drive technical vision.
- Ensure reliability of critical platform services.
About the role
Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run scalable, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for improving the availability and reliability of the firm’s most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. It is also responsible for firmwide policies and standards focused on firm’s digital resilience. We are looking for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.
The SRE team develops and maintains platforms and tools which help other Engineering teams in Goldman Sachs to build and operate reliable and resilient systems. These systems span on-premises datacenters and multiple public cloud environments. The platforms we offer include central logging, monitoring, agents and alerting and we provide tools to drive adoption and improvements to capacity planning, operational readiness assessments, production incident postmortems, SLIs / SLOs, and deployment automation including canary releases.
The products and services we provide to our internal customers are used by thousands of engineers every day. We believe that reliability is the most important feature of any system, and we are devoted to giving our engineers the platforms and tools they need to build and operate reliable products.
Role Overview
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Goldman Sachs, you will be a pivotal leader in ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of the firm's most critical platform applications and services. You will combine deep software and systems engineering expertise to architect, build, and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role involves providing technical leadership, mentoring senior engineers, and collaborating closely with internal teams and executive stakeholders to build and operate sustainable production systems that can adapt to our dynamic global business environment. You will drive a culture of continuous improvement, championing the adoption of advanced SRE principles and best practices across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Reliability & Performance: Drive the strategic direction for availability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical applications and platform services, ensuring alignment with firm-wide objectives.
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the design, build, and implementation of highly available, resilient, and scalable infrastructure and application architectures.
- Advanced Automation & Tooling: Architect and develop sophisticated platforms, tools, and automation solutions to eliminate toil, optimize operational workflows, and enhance deployment processes across the enterprise.
- Complex Incident Management & Post-Mortem Analysis: Lead critical incident response, conduct in-depth root cause analysis for systemic issues, and implement long-term preventative measures to significantly enhance system stability and resilience.
- System Design & Capacity Planning: Partner with development teams to embed reliability into application design from inception, provide expert system design consulting, and lead comprehensive capacity planning initiatives for future growth.
- Observability & Insights: Define and implement advanced monitoring, high volume logging with multi-user query capabilities, and tracing strategies to provide deep, actionable insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and user experience.
- Technical Vision & Mentorship: Provide technical vision, lead complex technical projects, conduct rigorous code reviews, enforce SDLC best practices, and actively mentor and develop senior and staff-level engineers.
- Technology Evaluation & Adoption: Stay at the forefront of industry trends and advancements, evaluating and integrating cutting-edge tools and frameworks to significantly improve operational efficiency and reliability.
- On-Call Leadership: Participate in and lead on-call rotations, providing expert guidance and hands-on support for critical system incidents.
Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 6+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in architecting, designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- Technical Proficiency: Exceptional programming skills in one or more major languages such as Java, Python, Go with a focus on building robust, scalable software.
- Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and deep expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
- Advanced proficiency in Prompt Engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures to automate complex SRE workflows, such as the generation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), dynamic runbooks, and incident response summaries.
- Profound understanding of Linux internals, networking, distributed systems, and advanced system performance tuning.
- Expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring, alerting, logging and tracing solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, PagerDuty).
- Deep experience with CI/CD tools and practices (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Maven).
- Strong foundation in databases and distributed systems.
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities and analytical skills, with a track record of resolving complex technical challenges.
- Preferred Experience: Experience with Distributed Databases like Elastic Search
- Experience with working on GCP Big Query
- Experience with messaging Systems Like Kafka
- Education: Advanced degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Soft Skills: Superior communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence technical direction, lead cross-functional initiatives, and effectively engage with global teams and executive leadership. Proven ability to work independently, manage multiple complex stakeholders, and drive significant organizational change.
Key skills/competency
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting
- CI/CD
- Distributed Systems
- System Performance Tuning
- Prompt Engineering and RAG
Skills & topics
- Site Reliability Engineering
- SRE
- Vice President
- Goldman Sachs
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Computing
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Alerting
- Distributed Systems
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Prompt Engineering
- RAG
- CI/CD
- Incident Management
- Capacity Planning
- Systems Engineering
- Software Engineering
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 6+ years of SRE experience, cloud expertise, and specific languages like Java, Python, or Go. Quantify achievements in reliability and scalability.
- Showcase technical skills: Emphasize your mastery of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), and CI/CD. Mention prompt engineering/RAG experience.
- Demonstrate leadership: Provide examples of leading complex projects, mentoring engineers, and driving strategic initiatives in reliability and performance.
- Understand Goldman Sachs: Research the company's commitment to digital resilience, SRE principles, and their use of on-premises and cloud environments.
- Prepare for behavioral interviews: Be ready to discuss complex problem-solving, incident management, and how you drive change within an organization.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What is the primary focus of the Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President role at Goldman Sachs?
- The primary focus of this Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President role at Goldman Sachs is to ensure the availability, reliability, and scalability of the firm's critical platform applications and services by combining deep software and systems engineering expertise. You will lead initiatives in architectural design, automation, incident management, and mentorship.
- What are the key technical qualifications for this Vice President SRE position?
- Key technical qualifications include a minimum of 6+ years of SRE experience, exceptional programming skills in Java, Python, or Go, extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), IaC tools, and expertise in monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions. Proficiency in Prompt Engineering and RAG is also required.
- Does Goldman Sachs utilize cloud environments for their SRE platforms?
- Yes, Goldman Sachs utilizes multiple public cloud environments in addition to their on-premises data centers for their SRE platforms. Experience with cloud platforms like AWS and GCP is a core requirement for this role.
- What kind of leadership and mentorship is expected in this Vice President role?
- As a Vice President, you are expected to provide significant technical leadership, mentor senior and staff-level engineers, drive the technical vision for SRE platforms, lead complex technical projects, and influence technical direction across the organization.
- How does Goldman Sachs approach incident management and post-mortem analysis for SRE?
- Goldman Sachs emphasizes leading critical incident response, conducting in-depth root cause analysis for systemic issues, and implementing long-term preventative measures to enhance system stability and resilience. This role will lead such efforts.
- What specific industries or technologies are considered 'preferred' for this SRE role?
- Preferred experience includes working with Distributed Databases like Elastic Search, GCP Big Query, and messaging systems like Kafka. These are considered advantageous but not strictly required.
- What is the educational background expected for a Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President?
- An advanced degree (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD) in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering is expected, or equivalent practical experience that demonstrates a strong technical foundation.