Engineering - DXR Engineering - Systems Engineer - Associate - Dallas

Job Description

Procmon Platform delivers a highly scalable and reliable ecosystem for scheduling business critical jobs across Goldman Sachs.

Our platform is responsible for scheduling tens of millions of daily jobs for Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management, Risk and other business and engineering functions.

The ecosystem includes a number of high availability, very large scale systems including

• Job scheduling
• Event streaming
• Log shipping
• Data warehouses
• Security infrastructure
  
  

Responsibilities

• Own technical operations for systems that manage hundreds of thousands of compute cores
• Build observability for new deployments to ensure robustness from day one, as well as mature deployments to identify and implement improvements
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with block devices, file descriptors, and packet loss
• Lead real-time outage investigations and present postmortems to senior management
• Define SLIs and SLOs and partner with development teams to ensure system are sufficiently well designed and instrumented
• Partner with our development team throughout development and operations
• Plan and manage deployments and migrations (including end-of-life programs)
• Plan and implement robust business continuity and security programs
• Provide regional coverage for the Procmon platform and participate in the on-call support
  
  

Requirements

• Excellent problem-solving and automation skills
• Strong Linux fundamentals and system administration skills
• Good networking fundamentals (familiarity with TCP/IP, IP routing, firewalls, secure tunneling protocols)
• Experience working with distributed computing systems and Cloud computing environments
• Proficiency in at least one programming language; the team uses a mix of Go, Python and Erlang
• Able to operate effectively in a mission critical, highly regulated financial services environment