Software Security Engineer 3

Your seniority as a security engineer puts you in the ranks of the top talent in your field. Play a critical role at one of the world's most iconic financial institutions where security is vital.

As a Security Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls, you serve as a seasoned member of a team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. Carry out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives,

Job responsibilities:

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting applications, thinking beyond routine approaches to solve technical problems.
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language and addresses basic code quality issues.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate security analysis and vulnerability assessment documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations.
• Respond to incidents, assist in troubleshooting, and implement fixes to restore platform stability.
• Collaborate with other engineers and teams to enhance platform performance, reliability, and resiliency.
• Actively applies automation to reduce manual toil in the Software Development Life Cycle
• Ensure compliance with security, internal controls, and regulatory standards.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years’ applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience in application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following security and data handling requirements.
• Proficient in coding in one or more modern programming languages (Python, Java/Spring Boot, etc.) and experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a corporate environment
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline
• Basic knowledge of industry-wide technology trends, security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Observability Tools (e.g. Splunk, Grafana)
• Data Streaming Frameworks
• AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Kubernetes