Lead Software Reliability Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Software Engineer – Software Reliability to design, build, and operate scalable, resilient systems using Python and modern reliability practices.

You will apply SRE principles to improve availability, performance, and security while setting engineering standards across the product team. You will collaborate with engineering and product partners to troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain production services, drive incident reviews and RCA, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in system design and production software engineering.
• Experience in large corporate environments with modern programming languages.
• Knowledge of the SDLC, AWS, troubleshooting, resiliency, and automation.
• Understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (cloud, AI/ML).
• Experience with chaos engineering and incident analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable and resilient systems using Python to support continuous improvement and apply SRE concepts to enhance system reliability and performance.
• Execute software solutions, including design, development, and troubleshooting and create secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produce or contribute to architecture and design artifacts, ensuring design constraints are met.
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize data to develop visualizations and reporting for software and system improvement.
• Identify hidden problems and patterns in data to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Implement reliability engineering practices such as monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery.
• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to track system health.
• Conduct chaos engineering experiments to test system resiliency and identify weaknesses.
• Perform performance testing using tools such as JMeter to ensure scalability and stability.
• Collaborate with product teams to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance and contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies.
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect and participate in post-incident reviews and drive root cause analysis for system failures.

Skills

Python

SRE principles

Monitoring

Alerting

Automated recovery

Incident response

Root cause analysis

CI/CD

Cloud AWS

Performance testing

Tools

JMeter

MongoDB

AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Software Engineer – Software Reliability to design, build, and operate scalable, resilient systems using Python and modern reliability practices.

You will apply SRE principles to improve availability, performance, and security while setting engineering standards across the product team. You will collaborate with engineering and product partners to troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain production services, drive incident reviews and RCA, and