Lead Software Engineer, DevOps

JPMorgan Chase

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Work type
On-site
Location
Plano, TXHouston, TXJersey City, NJNew York, NY
Salary
$152,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $176k
This role $184k
$131k most similar roles pay here $224k

This role pays less than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $140,125–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $184k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm and one of the largest banks in the world, offering investment banking, commercial banking, asset management, and consumer financial services.

JPMorgan Chase currently has 436 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $152,000–$215,000 across 230 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Software Engineer, DevOps

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Electronic Trading Technology (ETT) team, you will lead an agile development team focused on enhancing and delivering secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions. Your daily responsibilities include managing releases across environments, ensuring production reliability for latency-sensitive services, and improving CI/CD pipelines for Java-based systems. You will collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize Linux and network performance, drive incident management excellence, and engineer resilient systems with high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. The role requires advanced proficiency in languages like Python or Java, a strong understanding of responsible AI use, and experience with observability practices such as metrics, logs, traces, and SLO-driven reliability. You will work on high-throughput and low-latency systems, contributing to the stability and performance of critical financial technology products used by global clients.

What you'll do

  • Manage and coordinate software releases across environments to ensure readiness and reliability.
  • Own production reliability for latency-sensitive services, including real-time support during market hours.
  • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for Java services with automated builds and versioning discipline.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to optimize Linux and network performance for low latency and stability.
  • Drive incident management excellence through rapid triage, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation strategies.
  • Engineer for resiliency by designing HA/DR solutions and conducting failover testing.
  • Identify opportunities to automate recurring issue resolution to enhance operational stability.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering with expertise in Python or Java.
  • Extensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and versioning discipline.
  • Strong background in managing high-throughput, low-latency systems and ensuring production reliability.
  • Proven ability to drive observability practices including metrics, logs, traces, and SLO-driven reliability.
  • Experience in designing for non-functional requirements such as resiliency, scalability, and supportability.

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