JP Morgan Chase

Runs a consumer bank and an investment bank

Lead Software Engineer - AWS/Site Reliability Engineering Engineer

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeOhio, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
Deep, broad expertise in Amazon Web Services across compute, data, networking, security, and observability, with proven production architecture experience.
Ability to reason about trade-offs, failure modes, and dependencies across an entire product.
Strategic command of cost, scalability, automation, reliability, and artificial intelligence integration as connected levers.
Hands-on depth to validate and prototype ideas, not only advise.
Executive communication and rigorous, independent judgment in a regulated, high-stakes environment.
Proven experience managing cloud-hosted production services and leading Live Site Management practices in complex, business-critical environments.
Strong site reliability engineering and observability expertise, including service-level indicator and service-level objective definition, error budgets, telemetry, distributed tracing, alert design, capacity management, and performance engineering.
Demonstrated ability to lead high-severity incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and drive durable remediation across multiple engineering teams.
Experience establishing production readiness standards, operational controls, runbooks, dashboards, and measurable service health objectives.
Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved artificial intelligence-assisted software development tools, including setting team expectations for validating outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
Strong understanding of responsible artificial intelligence use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

Responsibilities

Lead Live Site Management and cloud production management practices, including production readiness, change governance, incident response, problem management, and operational risk reduction.
Define and improve site reliability engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
Advance observability across applications and infrastructure through logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and automated anomaly detection.
Drive major incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and systematic elimination of recurring production issues.
Establish production health, availability, performance, and resiliency measures that provide actionable insight to engineering and business leadership.
Promote team adoption of enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes; establish consistent validation standards and promote reuse of effective patterns across the team.
Apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle toolchain capabilities, including enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence-assisted development and automation, to improve the value realized through automation.
Shape the end-to-end Amazon Web Services cloud architecture strategy across product components and strengthen cloud cost strategy and optimization across the product.
Advance the resiliency strategy, including multi-region, active-active, failover/failback, and disaster recovery.
Evolve the automation and infrastructure-as-code strategy and mature artificial intelligence integration across engineering and product workflows.
Raise shared architectural standards and decision-making across teams and improve how complex technical strategy is communicated to leadership.

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Deposits team of Consumer & Community Banking Division, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

Lead Live Site Management and cloud production management practices, including production readiness, change governance, incident response, problem management, and operational risk reduction.
Define and improve SRE practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
Advance observability across applications and infrastructure through effective logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and automated anomaly detection.
Drive major incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and the systematic elimination of recurring production issues.
Establish production health, availability, performance, and resiliency measures that provide actionable insight to engineering and business leadership.
Promote team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized through automation.
Shape the end-to-end AWS cloud architecture strategy across all product components ; Strengthen cloud cost strategy and optimization across the product.
Advance the resiliency strategy, including multi-region, active-active, failover/failback, and disaster recovery.
Evolve the automation and infrastructure-as-code strategy ; Mature AI integration across engineering and product workflows.
Raise the bar on shared architectural standards and decision-making across teams ; Sharpen how complex technical strategy is distilled into leadership-facing narratives.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Deep, broad AWS expertise across compute, data, networking, security, and observability, with proven production architecture experience.
Systems thinking, including the ability to reason about trade-offs, failure modes, and dependencies across an entire product.
Strategic command of cost, scalability, automation, reliability, and AI integration as connected levers.
Hands-on depth to validate and prototype ideas, not just advise.
Executive communication and rigorous, independent judgment in a regulated, high-stakes environment.
Proven experience managing cloud-hosted production services and leading Live Site Management practices in complex, business-critical environments.
Strong SRE and observability expertise, including SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, telemetry, distributed tracing, alert design, capacity management, and performance engineering.
Demonstrated ability to lead high-severity incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and drive durable remediation across multiple engineering teams.
Experience establishing production readiness standards, operational controls, runbooks, dashboards, and measurable service health objectives.
Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.

About the Company

JP Morgan Chase

Runs a consumer bank and an investment bank

JPMorgan Chase runs the largest bank in the United States, which serves households and small businesses as Chase and large companies, governments, and investors as J.P. Morgan. During the 2008 financial crisis it bought the failing investment bank Bear Stearns and lender Washington Mutual, and in 2023 it took over First Republic Bank after regulators seized it. Chase takes deposits and earns interest on credit cards, mortgages, and car loans, while the investment side earns fees for advising on mergers, raising money for companies, trading stocks and bonds, and managing wealth. Formed in a 2000 merger, JPMorgan Chase traces its roots to 1799 and is based in New York City.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 1799

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