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Senior Cloud Database Engineer, Transaction Banking, Cloud Engineering

at Goldman Sachs

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipSQL/No-SQL Databases

Posted 18 hours ago

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Compensation: Not specified
City: Dallas
Country: United States

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer to architect, automate, and modernize AWS-hosted database platforms using Terraform. The role involves provisioning and operating managed databases (Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB) and document stores (MongoDB/DocumentDB/Atlas), leading complex migrations with minimal downtime, and building automation and validation scripts in Python. You will optimize performance across SQL and NoSQL engines, design resilient backup and DR strategies, and support scalability and high availability for data-intensive workloads.

Senior Cloud Database Engineer, Transaction Banking, Cloud EngineeringDallas, Texas, United States

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLEVice President

OFFICE LOCATION(S)Dallas

JOB FUNCTIONSoftware Engineering

DIVISIONPlatform Solutions

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.

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Transaction Banking (TxB) aims to bring innovative solutions to traditional banking and lending activities. We are a global team of lenders, investors, risk managers, skilled marketers, web experts and banking specialists. We provide a suite of solutions to help our customers meet their financial goals. We make direct investments in and manage risk for a portfolio of corporate loans and securities. We help transform distressed communities through investments and loans of private capital.

Who We Look For

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Database Engineer to drive the architecture, automation, and modernization of our data estate. In this role, you will use Terraform to manage our AWS database infrastructure and lead critical database migration initiatives.

You will support a diverse mix of relational and NoSQL databases—including MongoDB—ensuring they are resilient, scalable, and optimized for our data-intensive environment.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and provision production-grade database clusters (Aurora, RDS, MongoDB/DocumentDB) using Terraform, ensuring modularity and state consistency.
Database Migrations: Plan and execute complex database migrations (e.g., On-prem to Cloud, or engine conversions) with minimal downtime using tools like AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) or native replication.
DocumentDB Management: Deploy, secure, and scale MongoDB clusters (Atlas or DocumentDB), optimizing for document structure, indexing strategies, and sharding performance.
AWS Database Operations: Manage the lifecycle of managed services like Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB, focusing on high availability, backups, and disaster recovery.
Performance Tuning: Analyze query performance and locking issues across both SQL and NoSQL engines to ensure stability under load.
Required Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Cloud Database Engineering: 5+ years of experience engineering AWS database solutions (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB etc.).
Strong hands-on experience administering Document databases in a production environment, including index optimization and cluster scaling.
Proven track record of executing database migrations (heterogeneous or homogeneous) and modernization projects.
Expertise in writing Terraform for stateful resources (handling lifecycle rules, preventing accidental deletion).
Ability to write Python scripts for custom automation and migration validation.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Apache Airflow and Apache Flink ecosystems (understanding how these tools connect to and stress the database layer).
Experience managing Apache Cassandra for wide-column storage needs.
Advanced ability to troubleshoot complex SQL queries and optimize schemas.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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