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SRE Engineer roles sit squarely within STEM OPT eligibility, letting you work up to 36 months post-graduation with a qualifying computer science, software engineering, or systems engineering degree. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify, and you'll need a signed I-983 training plan before your 24-month extension activates.
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software development and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We also develop and operate the observability platforms that all other engineering teams use to make their services reliable. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with other engineering teams and our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business and regulatory environment.
How will you fulfil your potential?
- Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined SLOs.
- Run the Production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
- Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Champion reliability and resilience engineering practices and knowledge across the firm.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting.
- Experience with product engineering practices, algorithms, data structures, software design and/or experience with UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing AI tools and working with Cloud Platforms.
- Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership.
- Coding beyond simple scripts.
- Solving novel problems from first principles.
- Experience working in highly regulated, financial services firms.
- Excellent people leadership skills either as an engineering manager or individual contributor.
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.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
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OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
INTRODUCTION
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software development and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We also develop and operate the observability platforms that all other engineering teams use to make their services reliable. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with other engineering teams and our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business and regulatory environment.
How will you fulfil your potential?
- Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined SLOs.
- Run the Production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Drive incident management process and support a blameless post-mortems culture.
- Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Champion reliability and resilience engineering practices and knowledge across the firm.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, with a proven track record in building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems at an enterprise level.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding and/or systems engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting.
- Experience with product engineering practices, algorithms, data structures, software design and/or experience with UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing AI tools and working with Cloud Platforms.
- Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership.
- Coding beyond simple scripts.
- Solving novel problems from first principles.
- Experience working in highly regulated, financial services firms.
- Excellent people leadership skills either as an engineering manager or individual contributor.
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.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Sre Engineer
Verify your CIP code matches SRE
Check that your degree's CIP code falls under computer science, electrical engineering, or a related STEM category. SRE roles typically align with SOC code 15-1244. A mismatch between your CIP code and the role's SOC code can trigger a DSO denial of your extension request.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask recruiters directly whether the company is enrolled in E-Verify before signing anything. You can cross-check by searching the employer's name in the E-Verify employer search tool. An employer that isn't enrolled cannot legally hire you on STEM OPT, regardless of intent.
Target infrastructure teams with I-983 precedent
Prioritize SRE teams that have sponsored STEM OPT students before. Ask during interviews whether the company has an existing I-983 template for SRE or software engineering roles. A team with no prior OPT experience will slow down your training plan approval significantly.
Use Migrate Mate to filter verified SRE employers
Search Migrate Mate for SRE Engineer roles filtered to E-Verify-enrolled employers with STEM OPT hiring history. This eliminates the manual verification step and surfaces companies whose job descriptions already map to STEM-eligible SOC codes for site reliability and infrastructure roles.
Negotiate your I-983 training plan before day one
Push to finalize the I-983 training plan during the offer stage, not after you start. SRE training plans should specify concrete learning goals around observability, incident response, and systems automation. A vague plan risks rejection by your DSO and delays your extension activation.
Check prevailing wage alignment using OFLC Wage Search
Look up the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location using OFLC Wage Search before evaluating offers. STEM OPT employers must pay at least the same wage as similarly employed U.S. workers, and underpaying can jeopardize both your extension and any future H-1B petition.
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Find Sre Engineer JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, SRE Engineer roles qualify when your employer maps the position to a STEM-eligible SOC code, most commonly 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) or 15-1252 (Software Developers). Your degree must carry a STEM-designated CIP code in computer science, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. Confirm the SOC mapping with your DSO before submitting your extension application to USCIS.
What does the I-983 training plan need to cover for an SRE role?
The I-983 must document specific, measurable learning objectives tied to site reliability engineering, such as incident response workflows, monitoring and observability tooling, capacity planning, and automation engineering. Generic descriptions like 'software development tasks' are frequently rejected by DSOs. Your employer's engineering manager typically signs the plan, and USCIS may audit it, so concrete technical goals are essential.
How do I confirm my employer is enrolled in E-Verify?
Search the employer's legal company name in the E-Verify employer search tool maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. Note that some large employers enroll subsidiaries separately, so confirm the specific hiring entity, not just the parent brand. If the company isn't listed, it cannot legally employ you under STEM OPT, and you'd need to request enrollment before your start date.
How does cap-gap affect me as an SRE Engineer on STEM OPT?
If your employer files an H-1B petition on your behalf before your STEM OPT expires and you're selected in the lottery, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that fiscal year. You can continue working in your SRE role without interruption. USCIS issues an EAD extension reflecting cap-gap status, and your employer should update your I-9 accordingly.
Where can I find SRE Engineer jobs that accept STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters SRE Engineer listings to show only employers enrolled in E-Verify with a history of hiring STEM OPT students. This saves you from applying to roles where the company has no OPT infrastructure or lacks E-Verify enrollment. You can narrow results by location, company size, and SOC code to match your extension eligibility requirements.
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