Lead DevOps Engineer - Electronic & Equities Trading

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Houston, TX is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - DevOps with Equities Electronic Trading to ensure reliability of electronic and equities trading systems and to own Python-based automation and observability.

You will work in a Markets Tech team focusing on FIX connectivity, latency, and incident response, collaborating with trading and development teams, and leveraging C++ for debugging when needed.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), framework(s) and tools (e.g., Python, C++, Bash Scripting, Grafana, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience in DevOps and or SRE in a mission-critical, low-latency environment, with accountability for uptime and incident execution
• Practical understanding of the FIX protocol
• Strong Linux troubleshooting capability, including log analysis, process/resource diagnostics, and command-line proficiency

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Provide daily production support for electronic trading platforms, including FIX sessions/protocols, connectivity health, and order/trade workflow stability
• Monitor system health and trading-impacting signals using Grafana dashboards and alerting to improve visibility with latency, errors, throughput, and availability
• Lead incident triage and restoration activities during service degradation, including structured troubleshooting, stakeholder communications, and post-incident follow-up
• Perform root cause analysis on recurring issues and implement durable remediation, including runbook improvements, alert tuning, and operational automation
• Develops secure high-quality production code with reviewing and debugging code by using Python scripts and tools for health checks, operational workflows, reporting, and environment validation (per user-provided role intent)
• Operate and support Kafka on AWS with topic/partition design, consumer groups, throughput/latency tuning, security/permissions, and production troubleshooting
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automaton capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation
• Troubleshoot Linux based systems using logs, process and resource diagnostics, and network-level checks relevant to connectivity and application behavior (per user-provided role intent)
• Partner with development teams to investigate complex issues in trading components with read logs, traces, diagnostic output and the ability to interpret and discuss findings in contexts where components are implemented in C++

Skills

Python

C++

Bash scripting

DevOps

CI/CD

Tools

Grafana

Linux

FIX protocol

Kafka on AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Houston, TX is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - DevOps with Equities Electronic Trading to ensure reliability of electronic and equities trading systems and to own Python-based automation and observability.

You will work in a Markets Tech team focusing on FIX connectivity, latency, and incident response, collaborating with trading and development teams, and leveraging C++ for debugging when needed.