Core Engineering

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.

Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

SDLC Engineering focuses on delivering engineer-first, scalable platforms for job scheduling, Compute-as-a-Service, file transfer, firmwide software distribution and software development. This includes the CI/CD ecosystems, based around the GitLab and proprietary platforms.

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a suite of products that provides end-to-end build and deploy tooling for Engineers in the firm. It provides a modern, secure and highly available plant that facilitates source control, code review, build, test and production activation.

The primary customer base for the SDLCR tools are Engineers within Goldman Sachs. Key customers are the Global Banking & Markets as well as the Asset & Wealth Management and the Platform Solutions group.

As India Lead and SDLC ENGINEER

You will be responsible for all the deliverables owned by SDLC team in India. 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, compiles fast, tests comprehensively and is distributed widely. You will deliver CI/CD solutions that support cloud native development. You could be working with cutting edge build technology from AWS & Google, or the latest cloud technology in one of more backend languages including Java, Golang, and Python.

SDLC Platforms include:

• Build / Development
• GitLab - The firm's strategic vendor CI/CD platform, hosted in-house with instances on-prem and on public cloud
• In-house developed Continuous Integration (CI) tools for deploying Software packages, config and Infrastructure as Code
• Distribution - Linux and Windows software distribution system used by GitLab, as well as proprietary distribution tooling
• Artifact Repository - Primary build artifact repository hosting terabytes of internal and external software packages and industry standard asset repos such as Maven Central, NPMScopes and PyPi, running on Sonatype Nexus

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical ownership of proprietary in-house built CI tooling for GS developers.
• Design and develop features and improvements to CI tools
• Technical Ownership of Upgrade and Migration assistant initiative that includes automating dependency upgrades using AI as appropriate
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain and improve the functions and quality of service
• Ensure that CI products are secure, tested, and that meets or exceeds industry standard performance and availability
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Diagnose and solve technical problems, both within the core GitLab environment, and the associated GS technical eco-system

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN WHEN YOU JOIN US

• Cloud native architectures in AWS.
• Experience with large scale build systems and deployment paradigms
• Expertise in commercial / open source build systems (Gradle / Bazel / Make) and strong knowledge of software change management systems
• Experience of DevOps, SRE, infrastructure (storage / networks / etc.)
• Design and implement mid to large scale distributed systems
• Partner with and provide technical guidance on best practices to the GS engineering community, revenue aligned Engineering teams, and operations teams

CORE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• VP: Min. 12+ years of relevant industry experience respectively
• Ability to use and familiarity with GitLab
• Professional experience with Cloud deployment patterns. Specifically AWS cloud constructs, as well as Terraform
• General knowledge of multiple languages, and in-depth strong programming skills of at least one of: Java, Golang, Erlang, Python, C, C++
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with all stages in the lifecycle of developing and running large distributed systems
• Experience with diagnosis, prevention and management of performance, availability and scale of mid- to large-sized systems
• Experience using Prometheus and Grafana tools for Kafka health monitoring
• Experience with Cloud and Infrastructure as Code technologies - AWS, Terraform, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, etc
• Passionate about the software development process and facilitating high frequency / high quality change across a vibrant and diverse user community
• Strong written and verbal English language skills

ATTITUDES WE WANT

• Ability to thrive in our global organization in an output driven, fast paced, hybrid and asynchronous work place
• Team player, eager to work in a global organization.
• Ability to communicate technical and organizational challenges and propose high quality solutions
• Comfort working in an agile environment
• Self-managed and good organization skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc, MSc or PhD in relevant field (Computer Science, Maths, Physics)
• Highly knowledgeable about running key business applications on Linux platforms and Linux internals.
• Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, 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 a number of 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. about our culture, benefits, and people at

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. :

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We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Bengaluru
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division