Lead Software Engineer - Platform Identity

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Lead Software Engineer - Platform Identity in USA

JPMorgan Chase
Full time
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USA
09/25/2026
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Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate identity platform services and APIs from architecture through production.
Improve application and platform reliability, stability, scalability, performance, and service levels using data-driven analysis.
Define service level indicators, service level objectives, and error budgets with stakeholders.
Build and maintain CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, deployment, and automation tooling, including capacity, failover, and disaster recovery planning.
Lead major-incident response, troubleshooting, post-incident analysis, and operational readiness for the application.
Lead resiliency design reviews and technical initiatives across medium- to large-sized products.
Apply approved AI capabilities to incident triage, code review, refactoring, testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis while validating outputs and protecting sensitive data.
Partner with security and platform teams to keep identity services secure, compliant, and well governed.
Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and promote reuse of effective engineering and AI-assisted reliability practices.

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
Strong knowledge of reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise architecture, toil reduction, and site reliability practices.
Production experience designing and building services and APIs with clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language such as Python, Java/Spring Boot, or Go.
Proficiency with automation and infrastructure-as-code, including Terraform or a similar templating language.
Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to improve SRE workflows and software development practices.
Experience with observability, service-level-objective alerting, and telemetry collection such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Tempo.
Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and tooling.
Experience troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues.
Ability to establish team standards for validating AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, security, and compliance.
Preferred experience with authentication and federation protocols, IAM models, certificates and key rotation, directory services, federated cloud identity, PKI, x509, mTLS, regulated or highly available systems, disaster recovery, and multi-region resilience.
Preferred proficiency with containers and Kubernetes.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package with benefits determined by eligibility; compensation details are provided during the hiring process.
Comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support and diversity and inclusion programs.

Salary: $157k - $215k/yr

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 ...

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