Database Engineer

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. We change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas and solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Our engineering teams build 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. 

Within the firm's Global Banking & Markets business, Transaction Banking (TxB) brings innovative solutions to traditional banking activities. We are a global team of lenders, investors, risk managers, skilled marketers, web experts, infrastructure engineers, and banking specialists. We provide a suite of solutions to help our customers manage their payments in innovative ways.

TxB aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for GS and other financial institutions. TxB combines the strength and heritage of a 154-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Through the use of modern technologies centered on data and analytics, we provide customers with powerful tools that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity to improve cash flow management efficiency.

Within TxB, the Platform Database Engineering team is a global team responsible for engineering public cloud database and caching solutions to support our Payment Orchestration and Execution Platform. Working in close partnership with application teams building the new system, the team is responsible for identifying data persistence, performance, availability and resiliency requirements and delivering cloud native, scalable solutions to fit their needs.

Who We Look For

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. We are seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about building and operating cutting-edge cloud database capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-paced DevOps environment.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Help to define, communicate, and promote database engineering best practices for public cloud application deployment across the department.
• Automate the provisioning of database, caching, and related operational tooling using Terraform.
• Design and develop central Terraform modules to simplify the adoption of standard database patterns by application teams, such as database provisioning, parameter management, backup/restore, and monitoring modules.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to present, persuade, and influence peers, vendors, and executives.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships across a multitude of stakeholders in a fast paced, multi-directional work environment.
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply expertise to drive complex, technical, and highly commercial solutions.
• Experience supporting complex production application environments.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience working with databases.
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS Aurora, RDS Oracle, or ElastiCache.
• Experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment.
• Experience meeting demands for high availability and scale.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as the interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams.
• Ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a Linux environment, including system engineering, high availability design, performance analysis, network troubleshooting.
• Hands on experience in Amazon web services, such as Cloudwatch, EC2, ECS, IAM, and KMS.
• Experience with Apache Cassandra.
• Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience using CICD (preferably Gitlab).

Salary Range 
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits 
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. 

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers. 

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