GSET Data Platform Eng - GBM Public - Software Engineer - NYC
at Goldman Sachs
Posted 6 days ago
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- Compensation
- $110,000 – $130,000 USD
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
Currency: $ (USD)
As a Data Platform Engineer in Equities Data Platform & Analytics, you'll design, build, and maintain a high-volume, low-latency post-trade data stack for sourcing, transforming, persisting, and distributing data to regulators, compliance, billing, risk, analytics, and client reports. This cloud-native platform handles multi-billion messages per day with high performance. The role is analytics-heavy, driving data-driven decisions for trading algorithms, and involves implementing data quality controls and real-time validation of data for completeness and accuracy. You will collaborate with Trading & Post-Trade teams, Regulatory and Compliance operations, and senior stakeholders to roll out upgrades and new AI-enabled capabilities to improve operational efficiency and revenue.
Your Impact:
As a Data Platform & Analytics Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain large volume, high processing & low latency post-trade stack that is used to Source, Transform, Persist & Distribute Equities Trading data to various consumers from Regulatory, Compliance, Billing, Risk, Analytics, Client reports etc.
This stack is being rebuilt as a cloud-native platform and presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to architect high volume (multi-billion msgs/day), low latency streaming solutions.
This is an Analytics-heavy role; your work drives the routing decisions of trading algorithms to be optimized for Exchange Fees and Rebates. We are currently integrating agentic AI capabilities to our Analytics platform to deepen our client outreach.
You will also be responsible for developing integrated Data Quality controls and visibility/entitlement platforms to ensure nuanced data access enforcement and real-time validation of data in terms of Completeness & Accuracy.
How will you fulfill your potential?
You will be given opportunities to apply both your technical and soft skills towards:
- Implementing and/or enhancing Data Platform ecosystem, which is challenging as it must address scale, resiliency, performance/throughput with optimal usage of resources
- Working with Trading & Post-Trade teams, Regulatory and Compliance operations and coverage teams to ensure smooth rollout & migration of any upgrades or changes
- Liaising with senior stakeholders across the firm to implement technology strategies
- Working on the latest technologies in high performance computing, cloud-stack, big data & distributed processing.
- Rolling out new agentic AI capabilities to drive Operational efficiency and Revenue growth.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 1 year of work experience in High Performance Server side/Data processing applications
- Minimum 1 year of Java or 2 years of Python programming experience
- Exposure to scripting languages, Relational Databases (OLTP/OLAP) and cloud services (Snowflake/Singlestore).
- Clear understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Familiarity with core programming concepts and techniques (e.g. concurrency, memory management), I/O, performance optimization, high volume, near real-time processing
- Comfortable with standard SDLC tools, e.g. version control systems, Build & debugging tools
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Highly motivated, committed and capable of working against timelines with minimal guidance
- Finance domain expertise & exposure to Trading, Investment banking is preferred but not must
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- Experience with several of the following:
- Large-scale, distributed enterprise systems – Flink, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop etc..
- High Performance, High availability systems
- Databases/cloud-services including Snowflake/Singlestore.
- Agentic AI workflows, exposure to working with generative AI models.
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $110000-$130000. 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.
