Security Engineer III

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Wilmington, DE seeks a Security Engineer III to join the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls team. You will design, develop, and troubleshoot security solutions, ensuring they align with functional requirements while preventing misuse and malicious activity.

Responsibilities include producing secure production code, optimizing latency and cost, and validating AI-assisted outputs. You will drive security awareness, and advance CI/CD practices within the team.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in security engineering with 3+ years of applied experience.
• Experience coding with Java and Golang and knowledge of SDLC.
• Experience developing security engineering solutions for internal clients.
• Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support security workflows with proper validation.
• Ability to review AI-assisted code/security recommendations before use and ensure data handling requirements.
• Strong understanding of agile methods, CI/CD, resilience, and security.
• Ability to own features and manage moderately ambiguous requirements.

Responsibilities

• Executes security solutions design, development, and troubleshooting for internal clients.
• Creates secure production code and maintains role-based algorithms.
• Optimize latency and data handling while managing load and concurrency.
• Uses AI capabilities to accelerate security analysis and validation.
• Leads security continuity awareness, training, and exercises.
• Applies AI-assisted practices in SDLC to strengthen testing and audit trails.
• Refactor and improve CI/CD pipelines and engineering best practices.

Skills

Security engineering

Java

Golang

CI/CD

AI capabilities

Data handling

Agile methodologies

Ambiguity management

Education

Security engineering certification

Tools

Java

Golang

CI/CD tooling

AI tooling

Job description

Your seniority as a security engineer puts you in the ranks of the top talent in your field. Play a critical role at one of the world's most iconic financial institutions where security is vital.

As a Security Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology & Controls, youserve as a seasoned member of a team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. Carry out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives

Job responsibilities

• Executes security solutions design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to apply knowledge of existing security solutions to satisfy security requirements for internal clients (e.g., product, platform, application owners)
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Optimize latency/cost; handle load, caching, concurrency, and data growth.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate security analysis and vulnerability assessment documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
• Leads delivery of continuity-related awareness, training, educational activities, andexercises
• 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.
• Refactor, pay down tech debt, improve CI/CD pipelines, contribute to engineering best practices.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts with application knowledge and 3+ years of applied experience
• Must have experience in coding (Java, Golang), overall knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience developing security engineering solutions
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following security and data handling requirements.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Demonstrated ability to handle moderately ambiguous requirements and own features through delivery.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with streaming/async workloads, or distributed systems patterns (idempotency, eventual consistency).
• Hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered agents or copilots in production or advanced prototypes.

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