About the role
What will you do at JPMorganChase?
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.
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
[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about
requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including
Disability/Veterans
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from
finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an
essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses,
clients, customers and employees up for success.
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