Senior Performance & Resiliency Engineer

JP Morgan Chase; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 114,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Chicago, IL, is seeking an experienced Software Engineer III to advance performance and resiliency engineering across mission‑critical platforms. You will design and deliver secure, scalable software while leading reliability initiatives and AI-assisted tooling adoption.

The role emphasizes distributed systems performance, cloud-native practices, and production readiness; responsibilities cover testing, monitoring, incident handling, and safe release strategies in a

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Experience improving performance and stability of high-volume platforms.
• Experience in performance engineering for distributed systems and SRE-style reliability engineering.
• Strong cloud/container background (AWS + Kubernetes/EKS, ECS).
• Experience with modern observability tooling.
• Experience leading use of AI-assisted development tools in engineering teams.
• Knowledge of responsible AI use and secure handling of data.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently.
• Practical cloud-native experience.

Responsibilities

• Contribute performance engineering efforts: load/stress/soak testing, capacity modeling, performance tuning, and regression prevention (KPIs, guardrails, and acceptance criteria).
• Improve production readiness: observability, actionable alerting, incident triage, and root-cause analysis leading to durable remediation.
• Apply resiliency patterns: timeouts/retries, circuit breakers, backpressure, graceful degradation, and failover readiness.
• Support safer releases via canary/progressive delivery and automated rollback patterns.
• Optimize containerized workloads across EKS (primary) and ECS/other compute; drive autoscaling and right-sizing.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code; reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, establishes validation standards, and promotes reuse of proven patterns in the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies SDLC tools and AI-assisted automation to improve value and performance.

Skills

Performance engineering

Cloud & containers

Observability

AI-assisted development

Reliability engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

ECS

Datadog

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Splunk

Prometheus

Job description

JPMorganChase in Chicago, IL, is seeking an experienced Software Engineer III to advance performance and resiliency engineering across mission‑critical platforms. You will design and deliver secure, scalable software while leading reliability initiatives and AI-assisted tooling adoption.

The role emphasizes distributed systems performance, cloud-native practices, and production readiness; responsibilities cover testing, monitoring, incident handling, and safe release strategies in a