Join a team where your engineering decisions directly improve platform stability, delivery speed, and operational excellence. You will build automation that scales, reduces recurring issues, and helps teams ship with confidence. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges with modern engineering practices, this role offers the opportunity to make a measurable impact.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms in the Corporate Sector, you drive the design and delivery of resilient automation that improves how virtualized and container platforms are provisioned, updated, and operated. You own end-to-end technical outcomes, partnering across teams to reduce risk, increase reliability, and accelerate delivery. You apply strong engineering fundamentals and a practical approach to AI-assisted development to solve complex problems while maintaining high standards for security, performance, and quality.
Job responsibilities
- Design and deliver software solutions that automate virtualized cluster lifecycle management from provisioning through decommissioning
- Automate configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and operational controls through platform and infrastructure APIs
- Lead production-grade deployments by owning technical solutions, establishing runbooks, and driving operational readiness
- Diagnose complex issues using structured troubleshooting methods, root-cause analysis, and data-driven decision-making
- Identify recurring operational problems and implement durable automation to eliminate manual remediation and improve stability
- Establish effective, validated AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, testing effectiveness, and incident resolution
- Define and improve engineering standards across system design, testing strategy, and service reliability for distributed systems
- Document architecture and design decisions to improve auditability, maintainability, and long-term scalability
- Collaborate with global engineering partners to align on priorities, influence technical direction, and deliver outcomes across teams
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong system design fundamentals, including API design, data modeling, testing strategy, and operational stability
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python to build scalable, reliable server-side services
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, including setting team validation standards for correctness, performance, and security
- Strong understanding of data sensitivity and secure handling practices when using AI-assisted workflows and developer tooling
- Hands-on experience with virtualization and automation concepts, including virtual machine lifecycle and core resource domains (compute, memory, storage, networking)
- Experience automating Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift cluster lifecycle and day-two operations, including upgrades and configuration management
- Experience developing and maintaining automated workflows in complex distributed environments, with strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience with workflow orchestration at scale (any comparable orchestration platform)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration frameworks used for large-scale automation
- Familiarity with hypervisor environments such as VMware ESXi, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, or kernel-based virtual machine (KVM)
- Experience building cloud-native services, including containerization, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and observability practices
- Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards through coaching, reviews, and technical leadership
- Strong interest in innovation and continuous improvement, including practical applications of AI to accelerate engineering outcomes
About Us
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Strong system design fundamentals, including API design, data modeling, testing strategy, and operational stability
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python for scalable server-side services
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools with validation standards for correctness, performance, and security
- Understanding of data sensitivity and secure handling practices in AI-assisted workflows
- Hands-on experience with virtualization, virtual machine lifecycle, compute, memory, storage, and networking
- Experience automating Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift cluster lifecycle and day-two operations
- Experience with automated workflows in complex distributed environments and strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience with workflow orchestration at scale
- Experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration frameworks
- Familiarity with VMware ESXi, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, or KVM
- Experience building cloud-native services, including containerization, CI/CD, and observability
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards through coaching, reviews, and technical leadership
- Interest in innovation, continuous improvement, and practical AI applications
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage and wellness resources, including mental-health support and wellness incentives, are described as comprehensive and accessible; feedback suggests income-based contributions help keep care affordable.
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% of eligible pay, plus additional employer contributions in some cases, is highlighted as a strong pillar of financial security. Feedback suggests this structure is a notable advantage of the total rewards package.
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Parental & Family Support — Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, along with fertility, adoption, surrogacy, childcare, and family-support resources, signals a family-forward approach. Feedback suggests these programs are a standout feature of the package.
JPMorganChase Insights
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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