Database Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Transaction Banking

About the role

The Platform Database Engineering team within Transaction Banking (TxB) at Goldman Sachs is responsible for engineering public cloud database and caching solutions to support the Payment Orchestration and Execution Platform. This team works closely with application teams to build and deploy scalable, resilient, and efficient database solutions.

Responsibilities

• Help to define, communicate, and promote database engineering best practices for public cloud application deployment across the department.
• Automate the provisioning of database, caching, and related operational tooling using Terraform.
• Design and develop central Terraform modules to simplify the adoption of standard database patterns by application teams, such as database provisioning, parameter management, backup/restore, and monitoring modules.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to present, persuade, and influence peers, vendors, and executives.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships across a multitude of stakeholders in a fast paced, multi-directional work environment.
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply expertise to drive complex, technical, and highly commercial solutions.
• Experience supporting complex production application environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience working with databases.
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS Aurora, RDS Oracle, or ElastiCache.
• Experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment.
• Experience meeting demands for high availability and scale.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as the interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams.
• Ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Basic qualifications include 5+ years’ experience working with databases, hands-on experience with AWS RDS Aurora, RDS Oracle, or ElastiCache, experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment, experience meeting demands for high availability and scale, ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, and ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Preferred qualifications include experience working in a Linux environment, including system engineering, high availability design, performance analysis, network troubleshooting, experience with Amazon web services, such as Cloudwatch, EC2, ECS, IAM, and KMS, experience with Apache Cassandra, experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform), experience using CICD (preferably Gitlab).

Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to present, persuade, and influence peers, vendors, and executives.
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs offers a competitive salary range of $130,000 - $250,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and wellness programs. For more information, please visit GS.com/careers.