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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
439 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$148,625–$212,500
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As a Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in Seattle, you will join a dynamic team to build a security platform that monitors and analyzes threat signals from SaaS vendors, ensuring real-time analytics and scalability. Your daily tasks include developing Java-based services for high-volume telemetry ingestion and enriching data, designing robust event processing pipelines, and implementing secure authentication and authorization features. You will collaborate closely with security and engineering teams to integrate new SaaS platforms efficiently while driving operational excellence through observability, reliability, and automation. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in building production backend systems, expertise in Java, and a track record of developing secure software. Knowledge of streaming architectures, cloud infrastructure, and modern identity patterns is essential for this role, which demands strong collaboration skills and the ability to lead safe AI adoption within cybersecurity workflows.
Build Java-based services to ingest, validate, normalize, and enrich high-volume security telemetry from SaaS vendors.
Design and operate event processing pipelines with strong correctness properties for deduplication, idempotency, retries, replay/backfill, schema evolution.
Develop platform authentication and authorization capabilities including service identity, token lifecycle management, least privilege enforcement, audit logging.
Drive operational excellence by ensuring observability, performance, reliability/SLOs, incident readiness, and automation in the security platform.
Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted workflows used in cybersecurity architecture to ensure traceability/auditability and alignment with security expectations.
What we're looking for
5+ years experience building production backend systems with Java proficiency.
Expertise in designing and operating streaming/event-driven architectures at scale.
Proven track record of developing secure software end-to-end, including threat modeling.
Solid fundamentals in implementing authentication/authorization and least privilege principles.
Experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in cybersecurity.
Demonstrated ability to assess and validate AI-assisted security recommendations before adoption.
Python
GO
Rust
SAML
OIDC
OAuth
REST
Linux
Windows
MacOS
PKI
Web Application Firewalls
CI/CD
Network Security Systems
Identity Lifecycle Management Services
Secure Code Development Practices