The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Associate - Birmingham
Goldman Sachs2 months ago
Birmingham, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Manage production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity, and overall system health.
- Provide system design consultation, capacity planning, and launch reviews before software goes live.
- Drive system scaling and improvements to capacity and reliability.
- Practice incident management and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Build improvements to system behavior, controls, monitoring, and observability tools.
- Define and maintain Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives.
- Engineer automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce operational toil.
Requirements
- Experience with one or more of Java, Python, Perl, and Node.js.
- Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and collaboration skills.
- Minimum of 3–4 years of experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving programming.
- Experience with automated testing, SDLC concepts, Linux application development, algorithms, data structures, and software design.
- Proficiency with observability technologies such as distributed tracing, logging, metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
- Desired experience with SRE, relational databases, Hadoop, big data technologies, and financial industry or compliance/risk functions.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and managed services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Understanding of SRE concepts including error budgeting.
Benefits
- Training and development opportunities and firmwide professional networks.
- Benefits, wellness, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for candidates with special needs or disabilities.
Categories
Site Reliability
About Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities trading, and asset and wealth management to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Its businesses generate revenue from advisory and underwriting fees, trading and financing, and management fees on client assets. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in New York City, it operates worldwide and is listed on the NYSE under the ticker GS.