Senior Lead Software Engineer, Electronic Colo Trading
JPMorgan Chase11 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance Linux platforms for low-latency electronic trading.
- Architect immutable infrastructure, containerized systems, next-generation deployment models, and automated provisioning pipelines.
- Perform kernel tuning, CPU isolation and pinning, NUMA optimization, IRQ affinity configuration, kernel-bypass networking, and precision time synchronization.
- Develop production-quality code and automation to reduce manual work and improve platform reliability and performance.
- Lead adoption, governance, validation, and secure use of approved AI-assisted software engineering tools and workflows.
- Design CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, standardized server builds, fleet automation, patching, and configuration drift controls.
- Partner with electronic trading businesses and hardware and software vendors on technical strategy and infrastructure roadmaps.
- Influence resource, budget, governance, operational, and engineering decisions across multiple teams and domains.
- Mentor and influence SREs, engineers, senior stakeholders, and partner technical teams, including leading cross-functional technologists and developing talent.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Strong production programming and automation skills using Python, Go, or Bash.
- Deep hands-on Linux administration, internals, performance tuning, and benchmarking experience, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and low-latency, high-throughput environments.
- Experience with kernel-bypass networking using Solarflare Onload and configuration management using Chef or Ansible.
- Experience leading enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI engineering practices, data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, and security controls.
- Understanding of IPv4 networking, the OSI model, unicast, broadcast, multicast, routing, and network segregation.
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, and cloud-native container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience leading cross-functional technology teams and hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
- Preferred experience includes electronic trading or other latency-sensitive, high-availability environments, colocation data centers, low-latency Linux performance tuning, golden server builds, fleet management, automated patching, and configuration drift control.
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.