Compliance Engineering, Dev Ops, Vice President, Dallas

About the role

We are Compliance Engineering, a global team of more than 300 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems. We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that prevent, detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm. The firm is making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild the Compliance application portfolio.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build, run, and maintain high-performant, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As an SRE Engineer, you will ensure our systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve our production services, facilitating fast delivery of new services and reducing downtime. SRE utilizes automation, tools, and solid engineering principles to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure, and eliminate operational work.

Responsibilities

• Proactive management of production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity, and overall system health.
• Shape software before go-live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Scale and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
• Practice sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture.
• Identify and build improvements to system behavior, control, and monitoring tools.
• Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to quantify and manage service reliability.
• Engineer solutions to reduce "toil" through advanced automation and self-healing system capabilities.
• Conduct capacity modeling and performance tuning to ensure systems meet future demand.

Requirements

• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, and Perl.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.
• Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry).
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field that involves programming.
• Experience in some of the following: SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.
• Experience with Chaos Engineering principles and fault-injection testing to verify system resilience.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and managed services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Understanding of Error Budgeting and its application in balancing feature velocity with system stability.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Skills

• Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
• Highly motivated, proactive, and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
• Strong, committed, and reliable team player with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to take direction but also contribute to discussions on design and strategy.
• Possess client-facing skills to build relationships with business and technology groups.
• Ability to multi-task and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Interest in financial markets, technology, and continuous learning.

About the company

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base, including corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.