Lead Security Engineer - Blockchain & Secure SDLC Architect

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

On-site health center

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

JPMorganChase, within the Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and deploy secure components for blockchain capabilities. You will lead security analytics work, collaborate with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk, and product/operations teams in a fast-paced, agile setting.

Responsibilities include building security monitoring, CI/CD pipelines with guardrails, threat modeling, and AI-assisted security processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience engineering a security analytics platform (Splunk or equivalent).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines.
• Automation scripting language for automation and integration tasks.
• Experience working in an Agile team environment with common frameworks.
• Understanding cybersecurity practices, risk management, and security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy security monitoring controls, with a focus on blockchain security.
• Build and maintain modern tooling using API-first design, microservices and/or event-driven patterns, with strong non-functional focus (resilience, performance, scalability).
• Engineer and operate CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security guardrails (code quality checks, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy gates).
• Define and execute secure SDLC practices including threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate integration of blockchain-related security telemetry and operational requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best-practice adoption across squads.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations.
• Support production reliability through operational readiness, incident triage/root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Perform technical evaluation during proof-of-concept / vendor assessments, providing SME input into architecture and product decisions.

Skills

Automation scripting

Data management concepts

Analytical thinking

Agile methodologies

Cybersecurity fundamentals

AI-assisted security workflows

Code review

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Cybersecurity/Data Science

Tools

Splunk

Job description

JPMorganChase, within the Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and deploy secure components for blockchain capabilities. You will lead security analytics work, collaborate with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk, and product/operations teams in a fast-paced, agile setting.

Responsibilities include building security monitoring, CI/CD pipelines with guardrails, threat modeling, and AI-assisted security processes.