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As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate technology team, you architect and deliver core components of a distributed data platform. You partner with product, data, SRE, and security teams to achieve reliability, performance, and compliance at scale. You help shape engineering standards and drive technical excellence across the team.
Job responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end platform components for streaming, batch, and interactive workloads
- Write high-quality, performant code and build robust APIs and services
- Sets strategy and operating standards for agentic AI-enabled engineering across a portfolio (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to drive measurable improvements in delivery speed, reliability, and code quality (e.g., AI-orchestrated SDLC/TLM automation, release readiness gating, incident triage/root-cause acceleration, and large-scale refactoring/test modernization), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams and functions.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
- Implement resilient distributed workflows and optimize compute clusters and storage layers
- Embed security, governance, and compliance controls in services and pipelines
- Define SLIs/SLOs, automate alerts, and contribute to reliability and operations
- Mentor senior engineers and champion engineering excellence and risk controls
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Demonstrable ownership of cloud-native distributed systems or data platforms at scale
- Deep expertise in at least two areas: cloud platforms, storage/lakehouse tech, data processing/streaming, query/compute engines, distributed systems, security/governance, DevOps/SRE
- Demonstrated experience designing and scaling agentic AI-enabled development patterns (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams/functions, including establishing governance for human-in-the-loop validation, traceability/auditability, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations at scale, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance; ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, reuse, and measurable outcomes.
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in coding in Java, Scala, Python, or Go
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in large corporate environments
- Excellent system design and communication skills; ability to influence roadmaps and standards across teams
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience in regulated or mission-critical environments with strict RTO/RPO requirements
- Hands-on with data governance stacks, data quality frameworks, and policy engines
- Familiarity with ML/AI data patterns and low-latency serving
- Graduate degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
- Demonstrable ownership of cloud-native distributed systems or data platforms at scale
- Deep expertise in at least two areas: cloud platforms, storage/lakehouse tech, data processing/streaming, query/compute engines, distributed systems, security/governance, DevOps/SRE
- Demonstrated experience designing and scaling agentic AI-enabled development patterns with governance, traceability, and secure handling of sensitive I/O
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use, security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance; ability to advise senior leaders
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in coding in Java, Scala, Python, or Go
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in large corporate environments
- Excellent system design and communication skills; ability to influence roadmaps and standards across teams
- Experience in regulated or mission-critical environments with strict RTO/RPO requirements
- Hands-on with data governance stacks, data quality frameworks, and policy engines
- Familiarity with ML/AI data patterns and low-latency serving
- Graduate degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent
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, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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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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