Executive Director Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Engineering Lead AWS / Kubernetes

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you’ve come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s portfolios.

Job responsibilities:

• Drive the design and implementation of AWS large-scale distributed systems capturing billions of real-time messages daily and computing eTrading analytics and signals.
• Automate provisioning of AWS multi-region network, compute and storage services that non-disruptively support eTrading activities 24x7.
• Enforce quantitative driven approach to proactively monitor performance, capacity, latency and cost of AWS-hosted solutions during routine and extra-volatile market events.
• Provide cross-functional leadership in building microservice-driven API to tech teams producing and consuming, on-prem or cloud-natively, the AWS-stored data.
• Pilot emerging technologies that help quants, traders and sales explore petabytes of stored data.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.  
• Strong hands-on experience in design, deployment and performance optimization of large Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS, including networking load balancing, ingress controllers, node group management and workload orchestration.
• Proficiency in optimizing FSx for Lustre and EBS performance for latency-sensitive applications and managing storage costs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems with relentless focus on resiliency improvement.
• Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Go for automation of CI/CD and SRE tasks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Experience with vector or timeseries databases such as KDB.
• Familiarity with building Datadog real-time dashboards
• Experience with managing SageMaker workflows.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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