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We build and operate platforms and applications that produce metrics, analyze risk, curate financial reports, enable people processes, support budgeting and financial planning, and help detect and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk. Our teams work with modern engineering frameworks, large-scale structured and unstructured data, responsive front-end applications, and big data technologies. The firm is also making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core applications on cloud platforms.\nSite Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs combines software engineering and systems engineering to build, run, and maintain high-performing, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. As a site reliability engineer, you will play a mission-critical role in ensuring that our systems are healthy, observable, automated, and designed to scale. 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Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nWe’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\n© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. 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