JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Principal Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
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Principal Engineer – Platform Team (Accelerator Business)
At JPMorgan Chase, our mission is to create products that solve real-world problems by putting customers at the centre. Our recently-formed Accelerator Business team is growing rapidly, and we’re investing in talents who thrive in a collaborative, agile, and people-first culture.
As a **Principal Engineer in the Platform Team, you’ll be at the heart of innovation, driving the technical roadmap, securing scalability, and championing architectural best practices.
About the Role
We’re on a mission to build products that solve real problems for customers. Our team embraces curiosity, collaboration, and commitment. As a Principal Engineer in the Accelerator Business, you’ll:
- Deliver smart ideas straight into the hands of our customers
- Focus on solving complex financial technology challenges
- Communicate across engineering, product, and business leaders
- Foster cross-functional tribes and squads
- Shape the technical future of Chase’s next-gen platforms
We’re looking for creative builders who don’t just identify problems—but literally build the solution to address them. Share your expertise with senior engineers, mentor talent, and turn big visions into real-world impact.
Wanting the best? We also value diversity of thought: background, experience, and perspective.
Key Responsibilities
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Technical Leadership
- Define a competitive multi-year roadmap for platform engineering to ensure scalability and innovation.
- Drive long-term architectural strategy and strategy roads that deliver value to Chase’s accelerated business model.
- Create a metabolic environment: test features, iterate fast, and reduce risk.
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Engineering Excellence
- Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and encapsulated infrastructure systems.
- Implement "You Build It, You Run It" to independently maintain the long-term operational stability of production systems.
- Architect solutions driving violent automation of infrastructure and platform operations.
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Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing
- Champions Software Engineering Communities of Practice and elevates the technical bar.
- Mentor and coach senior engineers, fostering growth and innovation within technical teams.
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Strategic Stakeholder Collaboration
- Bridge the gap between business needs, product direction, technologists, and security executives.
- Translate technical decisions into measurable value and communicate effective outcomes.
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Cost & Performance Optimization
- Lead FinOps practices to continually optimize cloud costs while championing resilient and performant systems.
- Shape distributed system architectures to tackle distributed latency, throughput, and caching challenges.
- Monitor platform health with DORA/SLI/SLO metrics—align systems to value-at-scale.
What We’re Looking For
Required Skills & Experience
- Formal education or certification (e.g., BSc, CKAD, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
- Expert administration of a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Proven mastery in Kubernetes administration and operator patterns.
- Advanced networking expertise across layers of the OSI model.
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native deployment tools.
- Hands-on experience in complex system design, development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced proficiency in **one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin).
- Demonstrated technical leadership, team collaboration, and the ability to share knowledge effectively.
- Hands-on security experience (e.g., Threat Modeling, Zero Trust practices).
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Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced CI/CD experience and socially responsible development paradigms.
- Debris-aware DevOps practices, e.g., SLSA Framework and GitOps.
- Deep experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL).
- Skills in high-performance distributed systems optimization, e.g., caching, load balancing, SSL/TLS strategies.
- Familiarity with Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium).
- Proven ability to coach both junior and senior engineers.
- Experience defining long-term platform-backed vision.
- Strong stakeholder communication, roadmap design, and education strategies for technical evaluation.
Why Join Us?
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, trusted by the world’s best organisations to deliver innovative solutions.
Our people-first culture values diversity as an enabler of success. We are also an equal opportunity employer and embrace:
- Fair chance hiring: Focusing on qualifications, skills and ability.
- Accessibility: Providing accommodation for mental or physical health needs.
- Diversity and Belonging: Being accessible in workplaces with a wide range of people.
With a mission to put the extraordinary at customers' fingertips, our financial technology platforms and forward-thinking team-xl can shape a future in FinTech.
Find out more about our commitments to fairness, transparency and values by reviewing our Diversity and Inclusion and Equal Employment Opportunities FAQs.
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