Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Performance and Resiliency Engineering
JPMorgan ChaseResponsibilities
- Lead load, stress, and soak testing, capacity modeling, performance tuning, KPI and guardrail definition, and regression prevention.
- Improve production readiness through metrics, logs, traces, APM, actionable alerting, incident triage, and durable root-cause remediation.
- Strengthen resiliency with timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, backpressure, rate limiting, graceful degradation, and failover readiness.
- Drive safer releases through canary or progressive delivery and automated rollback patterns.
- Optimize containerized workloads across EKS, ECS, and other compute platforms, including autoscaling and right-sizing strategy.
- Partner with application development and infrastructure/platform engineering teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team engineering guidance.
Requirements
- Senior experience in performance engineering for distributed systems and/or SRE-style reliability engineering in production.
- Strong AWS and Kubernetes/EKS experience, with ECS exposure beneficial.
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or CloudWatch.
- KEDA and/or Karpenter experience is a significant plus.
- Akamai experience is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively across teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Competitive total rewards package with eligibility-based benefits and potential incentive compensation or forfeitable equity.
- Equal opportunity employment, diversity and inclusion commitments, and reasonable accommodation support.
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About JPMorgan Chase
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients daily, managing assets and investments, offering business advice and strategies, and providing innovative banking solutions and services. Social Media Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/JPMCSocialTerms JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.