Associate Software Engineer

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About the role

Goldman Sachs is hiring for the role of Associate-Software Engineering!

The work

Responsibilities of the Candidate

• 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.
• Conducting capacity modeling and performance tuning to ensure systems meet future demand.

Who they want

Requirements

• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python and Perl.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and to automate routine tasks.
• Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry).
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment.