Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) Engineering plays a key role in the firm’s
ability to provide liquidity and execution services for institutional clients around the world, two important revenue drivers for the firm. In FICC Engineering we use both open-source industry standard and internal proprietary technologies to build cutting edge platforms for pricing, execution, and control over each of these millions of transactions.

Who We Look For

The FICC Systematic Market Making (SMM) business consolidates and expands the firm’s electronic market making and algorithmic trade execution. As part of the SMM Engineering team, SMM Production Engineering partners with SMM Trading to develop and support the pricing and execution services for the firm and its clients. The team is primarily focused on site reliability engineering, including driving automation, improving real-time monitoring, developing metrics to track performance, and managing the release and deployment lifecycle. Team members help support the day-to-day operations of the Trading desk and the electronic trading systems; the team is expected to interact closely with Trading & Sales business users. 

Candidates must have the technical and analytical skills required to triage and resolve complex production issues and operate well in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. A propensity to automate manual tasks, appreciation for large-scale, distributed computing systems, and a willingness to develop using a wide range of languages and frameworks will be necessary to succeed in the role. As part of a global Production Engineering team, you will provide operational and technical assistance for SMM applications and infrastructure, both for external clients and internal business users. You will oversee every component of the production system to identify and resolve production problems as well as assess the risk of system changes. In addition, you’ll assist with strategic projects to satisfy business, regulatory, and technological requirements, including developing software solutions, decommissioning legacy software/hardware, and migrating business critical components. An eagerness to not only maintain, but improve, both the support and development workflows is essential to succeeding in this role.

Job Summary

• Technical and operational risk management of a fast-paced, multi-asset electronic trading business
• Understand the end-to-end flow across applications at a business level
• Own the production environment, driving performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement
• Software development focused on creating sustainable systems and services that meet uptime and performance requirements through automation
• Own the automation of repetitive tasks and resolution of systematic issues
• Investigate new ways to improve operations and define new solutions to solve technically complex system issues
• Finding opportunities for efficiency and cost savings in support process and physical environment
• Troubleshooting live production critical and time sensitive business impacting issues and liaising with various teams not limited to software and infrastructure engineering to mitigate and resolve issues in a timely manner
• Own incident management and drive tactical and strategic solutions
• Proactive interaction directly with traders to communicate and drive technology changes, manage incidents, and troubleshoot problems
• Other duties as assigned or needed
• Participation in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of progressive technical work experience
• Proficient in at least one modern structured programming language such as Python, Java, C++
• Aptitude for algorithms, data structures, and software design
• Experience with Linux operating system internals and/or networking concepts
• Strong analytical skills, with an ability to quickly identify scope and impact of issues during high-pressure situations
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as strong customer service skills
• Process oriented individual
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to adapt to changing requirements and technologies
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks effectively

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation
• Knowledge of financial markets
• FIX protocol knowledge