You will balance hands-on development with technical resiliency.
As a Site Reliability Engineer (Software Engineer III) at JPMorganChase within Consumer & Community Banking, you will help build and run resilient, scalable services by combining software engineering with operational excellence. You will improve production stability through automation, reliability engineering, and disciplined incident management, partnering across engineering and product teams to reduce risk and accelerate safe delivery.
Job Responsibilities
- Engineer and improve reliability for large-scale, distributed services by applying software and systems engineering best practices to production operations.
- Design and deliver automation that reduces manual operational work, improves recovery time, and strengthens production stability and service resilience.
- Lead response and coordination for high-priority incidents, drive issue triage to resolution, and facilitate blameless post-incident reviews that result in measurable fixes.
- Partner with application development teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle to enable sustainable releases, safer change practices, and repeatable deployments.
- Implement self-healing patterns, resilience strategies, and capacity management practices to improve availability and reduce operational toil.
- Build and evolve end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces) and alerting standards to enable actionable monitoring and reduce noise.
- Apply data-driven analysis of incidents and usage patterns to anticipate reliability risks and proactively prevent customer-impacting issues.
- Support a balanced operating model that includes both engineering delivery and operational responsibilities, including participation in on-call rotations as needed.
- Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
- 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.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
- Hands-on software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, shell scripting) supporting production-grade systems.
- Experience operating and improving reliability of distributed systems on Linux/Unix environments, including troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and data layers.
- Experience with cloud and virtualization concepts, APIs, and modern engineering practices for scalable and fault-tolerant services.
- Experience building observability and operational diagnostics using monitoring/logging platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, cloud-native telemetry tools).
- Working knowledge of version control and modern delivery practices (e.g., Git-based workflows, continuous integration/continuous delivery) with a focus on quality and secure engineering.
- Strong critical thinking, incident leadership, and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, and operations stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including deployment patterns and operational troubleshooting.
- Experience designing frameworks that improve developer experience, release velocity, code health, and engineering standards.
- Experience with performance testing, bottleneck analysis, and capacity planning for high-throughput services.
- Experience administering application servers, web servers, and databases (e.g., Tomcat, Nginx, Oracle, MySQL) in production contexts.
- Certifications in cloud architecture or data platforms (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent).
- 5+ years of related industry experience across application development, site reliability engineering, or DevOps in large-scale environments.
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
- 3+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Hands-on production software development experience using a general-purpose language such as Python, Java, or shell scripting
- Experience operating and improving distributed systems on Linux or Unix environments
- Experience troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and data layers
- Experience with cloud and virtualization concepts, APIs, and scalable fault-tolerant services
- Experience building observability and operational diagnostics with monitoring and logging platforms
- Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD delivery practices
- Strong critical thinking, incident leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, and resiliency expectations
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Experience designing frameworks that improve developer experience, release velocity, code health, and engineering standards
- Experience with performance testing, bottleneck analysis, and capacity planning
- Experience administering Tomcat, Nginx, Oracle, or MySQL in production
- Cloud architecture or data platform certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect
- 5+ years of related industry experience in application development, site reliability engineering, or DevOps
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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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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