Specialized Cloud - Software Engineer - Associate - Seattle

Goldman Sachs•Seattle, WA

4h•$115,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting, and building a cutting-edge platform that enables Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud-native principles, and you will be directly contributing to a platform that programmatically enforces safety, security, and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster. The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Requirements

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional work experience.
Minimum 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
At least 1 year hands-on experience architecting, designing, administering, or developing management solutions for any of the main Cloud Providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud.
Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads and executive-level stakeholders.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code languages such as Terraform or Cloud Formation for managing and provisioning infrastructure.
Experience in leveraging Developer AI tools.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field.
2+ years of work experience with one or more of the major cloud platforms, though exposure to Azure, Oracle or Google would be advantageous.
Hand-on experience of software development, ideally using Java or Python.
Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling, such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, and AWS CDK.
Experience with security, isolation and multi-tenant design of distributed cloud services.
Familiarity with software artifact and container image lifecycle management and governance.
Familiarity with cloud network architectures and the integration with hybrid cloud networking.
Experience with Server-less platforms such as AWS Lambda, AWS Batch etc.

Responsibilities

Specification, development, testing, and releasing of new features for the Cloud Platform.
Contributing to the vision of the Cloud Platform, understanding customer needs, business goals, and product roadmap.
Building an engineering culture within the team.
Delivering high-quality software and being passionate about software engineering.
Designing, building, and testing technical and operational management solutions for Cloud Platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.
Proactively managing issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle.
Collaborating with a globally-distributed cross-functional team in building customer-centric products.
Managing the end-to-end lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release, and demise.
Partnering with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, usable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure.
Communicating and promoting best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm.