The Core Engineering – Site Reliability Engineering – Associate – Birmingham

Company: Goldman Sachs
Apply for the The Core Engineering – Site Reliability Engineering – Associate – Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Overview

As a Compliance Engineering SRE at Goldman Sachs, you will own and optimize the health, scalability, and automation of mission-critical production services. You will collaborate with engineering teams to design reliable systems, drive capacity planning, and accelerate delivery with lower toil. You’ll implement and refine SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and self-healing capabilities to sustain performance at scale. This role offers the chance to shape core cloud-ready platforms and contribute to a culture of blameless learning and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

  • benefits
  • wellness programs
  • personal finance offerings
  • mindfulness programs
  • training and development opportunities

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and manage production health, capacity, and availability
  • Contribute to system design and capacity planning before go-live
  • Scale systems to improve reliability and performance
  • Lead blameless postmortems and continuous improvement
  • Develop monitoring tools and improve system behavior
  • Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for service reliability
  • Reduce toil through automation and self-healing capabilities

Key requirements

  • Experience with one or more: Java, Python, Perl, Node.js
  • Strong communication and analytical/problem-solving skills
  • Ownership mindset and ability to automate routine tasks
  • Ability to debug and optimize code and automate tasks
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience with automated testing and SDLC in Linux environment
  • Knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design
  • Excellent communication
  • Ownership and proactive mindset
  • Team player and collaborative contributor
  • Java
  • Python
  • Perl

Posted: September 14th, 2026