Job DescriptionWhat We DoAt 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. Drive new businesses, redefine finance using AI, and seize opportunities at market speed.
In an era defined by AI, Engineering isn't just central - it's the driving force behind our business. Our dynamic environment demands innovative strategic thinking and immediate, impactful solutions. Ready to push the limits of digital possibility? Begin your journey here.
Securities Frontline Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) play a critical role in our fast-paced trading environment. The
Frontline SRE Production Engineering team owns the reliability, scalability, and operation of automated trading systems in the production environment. This high-impact role bridges the gap between various teams, such as software engineering, client coverage, compliance, and trading operations. We analyze real-time trading issues, build software tools to eliminate operational toil, and manage robust UAT and Production environments. We constantly challenge the status quo, applying modern software engineering principles to ensure our trading platforms remain resilient and highly scalable.
Who We Look ForAs a Frontline SRE, you will be embedded directly within the firm's Global Banking & Markets business. You will play an active role in identifying and resolving inefficiencies in our daily support and operational workflows.
By participating in day-to-day operations, you will diagnose complex system behaviors, coordinate incident responses, manage post-mortems, and oversee safe software deployments. Leveraging your interest in financial markets and the insights gained from managing our production systems, you will directly influence, design, and implement enhancements to our electronic trading product offerings.
We look for creative, collaborative engineers who thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Ideal candidates are innovators and problem-solvers who possess:
- A strong passion for automation, system efficiency, and clean code.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement and challenging manual processes.
How You Will Fulfill Your Potential - System Ownership: Measure and monitor the availability, latency, performance, and overall health of our production trading services.
- Toil Reduction: Design, develop, and maintain software tools and frameworks to automate manual tasks and improve operational efficiency.
- Pre-Release Engineering: Support services before they go live through system design consulting, capacity planning, and rigorous release reviews.
- Change Management: Safely deploy certified code and new functionalities into the live trading environment.
- Collaboration: Act as a key liaison between trading desks, quantitative strategists, and external vendors to resolve day-to-day technical issues.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to enhance the stability, performance, and disaster-recovery readiness of supported platforms.
- Market Microstructure: Understand US Equities and Options market rules to effectively interact with exchanges and resolve execution issues.
- Automated Testing: Write and maintain automated checkout tests to validate environment health across trading sessions.
Qualifications - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is a plus.
- At least 4 years of professional experience in an SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps role.
- Hands-on experience with at least one object-oriented programming language is a plus (e.g., Java, C++) and a scripting language is a must (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Proven experience supporting and maintaining high-availability production platforms.
- Domain knowledge of US Equities and Options market microstructure and electronic trading.
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, FIX), and topologies is a plus.
- Experience with large-scale automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Salary Range The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130,000-$250,000. 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.
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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
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