Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure – Security Engineering (Vice President)

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, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategist groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate real solutions.  Want to push the limit of digital possibilities?  Start here.

 

THE ROLE

In this role, you will own and operate critical security services, leading the design and development of hybrid cloud infrastructure that enables engineering teams to deploy and manage workloads safely and at scale. As part of the Cloud Infrastructure team within  Foundational Infrastructure, you will enforce cloud security and compliance as code, act as an escalation point, partner across engineering to deliver measurable risk reduction while boosting developer velocity, influence cloud provider roadmaps to adopt emerging security capabilities, and mentor engineers by embedding secure design, automated guardrails, strong data and identity controls, standardized observability, and resilience through automation and runbooks.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Set Strategy & Drive Security Innovation: Help define and execute the firm-wide vision for cloud access and security; partner with cross-disciplinary teams (Business Units, Risk, IAM, Privacy, Compliance); and influence cloud providers to strengthen enterprise security capabilities.Engineering & Development (Hands-On): Actively develop software, lead design, and build enterprise-scale cloud security platforms. Deliver developer-facing APIs, SDKs, and automation frameworks, while leveraging IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and hybrid/multi-cloud networking to enforce security and compliance.Service Ownership & Operations: Own and operate critical services for cloud access, security monitoring, and governance. Lead on-call rotations as escalation point, apply SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, observability, error budgets), and drive resilience through incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Collaborate across Engineering and Risk stakeholders to align on firm-wide controls. Represent the firm with auditors, regulators, and external cloud providers, while promoting best practices in cloud-native security and developer enablement.  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.10+ years of experience in software, platform, or security engineering.Proficiency in modern programming languages, with Java and Python preferred.Proven ability to lead design, architecture, implementation of distributed systems, and operating at scaleStrong knowledge of security principles, IAM, cryptography, application security, threat modeling, and secure architecture/design.Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation).Ability to understand and debug complex distributed systems.Excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.Technically curious and tenacious in working through difficult or ambiguous problems.  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.Experience with public cloud platforms in enterprise environments.Experience building microservices with Java/Spring Boot.Strong grasp of performance, security, and process interactions in complex distributed systems.Familiarity with DevOps, networking, scaling, and enterprise security architecture.Prior experience of responding to audit/regulatory reviews or working in regulated environments.Demonstrated leadership in technical teams and mentoring junior engineers.  

WHO YOU ARE

Energized by a diverse and constantly evolving environment.Intellectually curious about how systems operate and fail.Comfortable with ambiguity and open-ended problems.A clear and effective communicator.Dedicated to improving systems—you leave code better than you found it.Excited about opportunities to learn and grow.