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Vice President, Software Engineering
About the role
Goldman Sachs seeks a Vice President, Software Engineering to lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives across its global platform services. The role demands 10‑15 years of hands‑on SRE experience, designing and operating fault‑tolerant, highly available systems in multi‑cloud environments. The candidate will architect scalable infrastructure, develop automation tools, and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance. Responsibilities include leading incident response, capacity planning, observability, and mentoring senior engineers. The position requires strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Go, deep expertise with AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, IaC tools, and monitoring stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana. Candidates should also be proficient in CI/CD pipelines and have a solid foundation in Linux, networking, and distributed systems. Preferred experience includes distributed databases, GCP BigQuery, and Kafka. This full‑time, on‑site role in Hyderabad offers the opportunity to shape the reliability strategy for a leading financial institution.
What you’ll do
- Drive reliability & performance strategy
- Lead architecture of scalable infrastructure
- Build automation & tooling to reduce toil
- Manage incident response & post‑mortems
- Plan capacity & embed reliability in design
- Define observability & insights
- Mentor senior engineers & enforce SDLC
- Evaluate & adopt new technologies
- Lead on‑call rotations
What you’ll bring
- 10-15 years SRE experience building fault‑tolerant systems
- Strong programming in Java, Python, or Go
- Expertise in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
- Proficient with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
- Deep knowledge of monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab)
- Solid understanding of Linux internals and networking
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed databases (Elastic Search)
- Experience with GCP BigQuery
- Experience with Kafka
Skills
Education
Advanced degree