Site Reliability Engineer - Data Engineering

What We Do 

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 centre 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. 

About Data Engineering SRE 

Data plays a critical role in every facet of the Goldman Sachs business. The Data Engineering group is at the core of that offering, focusing on providing the platform, processes, and governance, for enabling the availability of clean, organized, and impactful data to scale, streamline, and empower our core businesses. Within Data Engineering, we run and operate some of Goldman Sachs largest platforms, our clients are engineers and analyst across all business units that depend on our platforms for daily business deliverables. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Data Engineering team, you will be responsible for observability, cost and capacity with operational accountability for some of Goldman Sachs’s largest data platforms. We are engaged in the full lifecycle of platforms from design to demise with an adapted SRE strategy to the lifecycle. 

Who We Are Looking For

You have a background as a developer and can express yourself in code. You have a focus on Reliability, Observability, Capacity Management, DevOps and SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle). You are a self-leader that is comfortable taking on problem statements with n-degrees of freedom and structure them into data driven deliverables. You drive strategy with “skin in the game”, you are on the rota with the team, you drive Postmortems and you have an attitude that the problem stops with you. 

How You Will Fulfil Your Potential

• Drive adoption of cloud technology for data processing and warehousing
• You will drive SRE strategy for some of GS largest platforms including Lakehouse and Data Lake
• Engage with data consumers and producers to match reliability and cost requirements
• You will drive strategy with data Relevant Technologies: Snowflake, AWS, Grafana, PromQL, Python, Java, Open Telemetry, Gitlab Basic

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters degree in a computational field (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or in a related quantitative discipline)
• 1-4+ years of relevant work experience in a team-focused environment
• 1-2 years hands on developer experience at some point in career
• Understanding and experience of DevOps and SRE principles and automation, managing technical and operational risk
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Proven experience in driving strategy with data
• Deep understanding of multi-dimensionality of data, data curation and data quality, such as traceability, security, performance latency and correctness across supply and demand processes
• In-depth knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
• Expertise in data warehousing concepts (e.g. star schema, entitlement implementations, SQL v/s NoSQL modelling, milestoning, indexing, partitioning)
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work with subject matter experts to extract critical business concepts
• Independent thinker, willing to engage, challenge or learn
• Ability to stay commercially focused and to always push for quantifiable commercial impact
• Strong work ethic, a sense of ownership and urgency
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build trusted partnerships with key contacts and users across business and engineering teams Preferred Qualifications
• Understanding of Data Lake / Lakehouse technologies incl. Apache Iceberg
• Experience with cloud databases (e.g. Snowflake, Big Query
• Understanding concepts of data modelling
• Working knowledge of open-source tools such as AWS lambda, Prometheus
• Experience coding in Java or Python