Site Reliability Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Frontline Production Engineering

Goldman Sachs

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$130,000–$250,000 / yr
Posted
32 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $190k
$116k most similar roles pay here $264k

This role pays more than 50% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$216,287 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $190k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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About Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm providing financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals.

Goldman Sachs currently has 134 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Frontline Production Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Frontline Production Engineering joins the Frontline SRE Production Engineering team to ensure the reliability and scalability of automated trading systems in production environments. This role involves diagnosing complex system behaviors, managing incident responses, conducting post-mortems, and overseeing safe software deployments while building tools to eliminate operational toil. The engineer will monitor availability and latency, perform capacity planning, and manage change management for electronic trading products. Required skills include proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Bash, experience with object-oriented programming such as Java or C++, and knowledge of version control systems like Git. Candidates must possess expertise in networking protocols like TCP/IP and FIX, along with domain knowledge of US Equities and Options market microstructure to resolve execution issues within the high-speed trading environment.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Monitor and measure the availability, latency, performance, and health of production trading services.
  • Develop software tools and frameworks to automate manual tasks and reduce operational toil.
  • Manage safe code deployments and new functionalities into the live trading environment.
  • Diagnose complex system behaviors and coordinate incident responses for real-time trading issues.
  • Provide pre-release engineering support including capacity planning and rigorous release reviews.
  • Write and maintain automated checkout tests to validate environment health across trading sessions.
  • Drive initiatives to improve platform stability, performance, and disaster-recovery readiness.
  • Resolve execution issues by applying knowledge of US Equities and Options market microstructure.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred).
  • At least 4 years of professional experience in an SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps role.
  • Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python or Bash.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one object-oriented programming language like Java or C++ (preferred).
  • Proven experience supporting and maintaining high-availability production platforms.
  • Domain knowledge of US Equities and Options market microstructure and electronic trading.
  • Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and version control systems like Git.
  • Experience with large-scale automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.

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