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**Software Engineer (Associate) - Core Engineering, Birmingham** - **Key Responsibilities:** Proactive service management, system design, capacity planning, incident handling, and automation. - **Required Skills:** Programming experience in Java, Python, Perl, or Node.js; strong communication; problem-solving; debugging and optimization. - **Experience:** 3-4 years, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. - **Preferred Qualifications:** SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop, cloud-native architecture, error budgeting understanding. Manage and scale systems, drive automation, and improve reliability. Collaborate with engineering teams to launch services and minimize downtime. Join a global team working on complex, mission-critical problems with access to latest tech and massive data. Bring your passion for operational problem-solving and commitment to continuous improvement via automation.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Birmingham
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Full Job Description
WHAT WE DO:
We are Core Engineering, a global team of more than 2500 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems. We build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that produce metrics, analyse risk, curate financial reports, enable people process, help with budgeting and financial planning and also detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive front end and Big Data applications. The firm is making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core application to cloud
SRE at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build run, and maintain high performant, distributed, fault tolerant systems. As a SRE Engineer you will be filling a mission-critical role ensuring that 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. We are looking for passionate, curious, driven engineers who thrive on solving operational problems and improving efficiency and would like to apply their skills to Compliance Engineering SRE.
Job Responsibilities:
- Proactive management of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity and overall system health.
- Shaping software before go-live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
- Scaling and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
- Practicing sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture.
- Identifying and building improvements to system behavior, control and monitoring tools.
- Defining and maintaining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to quantify and manage service reliability.
- Engineering solutions to reduce "toil" through advanced automation and self-healing system capabilities.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Technical Skills:
- Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, perl and node.js.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
- Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3-4 years of experience. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
- Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
- Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry).
- Experience in some of the following is desired: SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and managed services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Understanding of various SRE terminologies e.g. Error Budgeting and its application in balancing feature velocity with system stability.
Interpersonal Skills:
- Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
- Highly motivated, pro-active and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
- Strong, committed and reliable team player and strong communicator, able to take direction but also willing to contribute to discussions on design and strategy.
- Ability to multi-task and be effective working in a fast-paced environment.
- Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
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 that includes 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.
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.
