The SRE Engineer role at Goldman Sachs is part of the Compliance Engineering team, which focuses on managing and improving the firm's compliance applications. This position combines software and systems engineering to ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. The engineer will work collaboratively with various engineering teams to enhance production services and automate operational tasks. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving operational challenges and improving system efficiency through innovative solutions.

• Experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Perl.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to express ideas clearly.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with an appreciation of technical risk.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts in a Linux environment.
• Proficiency with observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in distributed systems.

• Proactively manage production services by measuring and monitoring availability and system health.
• Shape software before go-live through system design consulting and capacity planning.
• Scale and evolve systems by advocating for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
• Practice sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture.
• Identify and build improvements to system behavior and monitoring tools.
• Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Engineer solutions to reduce operational toil through automation and self-healing capabilities.
• Conduct capacity modeling and performance tuning to meet future demand.

• Employees at Goldman Sachs are often offered comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability coverage, generous vacation and holidays, and robust wellness resources such as EAP counseling, medical advocacy, on-site/virtual health services, and fitness support. Financial perks typically include retirement savings programs, live financial education, education support, and wealth-creation opportunities through equity awards and select investment programs. Many locations also provide family benefits (childcare resources, parental and family leaves, adoption/surrogacy support) and flexible work options like part-time schedules, job sharing, telecommuting, and alternate hours.