Senior Performance & Resiliency Engineer (Cloud Native)

Aumni; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Software Engineer III to join an agile team delivering secure, scalable technology products. You will own performance engineering, production readiness, and resilient deployment patterns across distributed systems, with emphasis on AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development practices.

The role emphasizes independent problem solving, strong collaboration, and driving automation within the SDLC. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience improving performance and stability of high-volume platforms.
• Experience in performance engineering for distributed systems or SRE-like reliability in production.
• Strong cloud/container background (AWS + Kubernetes/EKS, ECS).
• Experience with observability tooling (Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch).
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools with a focus on correctness and security.
• Knowledge of responsible AI use and secure handling of data.
• Ability to tackle design problems independently with limited oversight.
• Practical cloud-native experience.

Responsibilities

• Contribute performance engineering efforts: load/stress testing, capacity modeling, tuning, and regression prevention.
• Improve production readiness: observability, alerting, incident triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Apply resiliency patterns: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, backpressure, graceful degradation, and failover.
• Support safe releases via canary/progressive delivery and automated rollbacks.
• Optimize containerized workloads across EKS as primary, ECS/others as needed; drive autoscaling and right-sizing.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others’ code.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering practice adoption and establish validation standards.
• Apply SDLC tooling knowledge to improve automation and delivery value.

Skills

5+ years experience

Cloud experience

Kubernetes

AI-assisted development tools

Observability and SRE practices

Independent problem solving

Education

Formal software engineering training

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS / ECS

Splunk

Datadog

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Job description

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Software Engineer III to join an agile team delivering secure, scalable technology products. You will own performance engineering, production readiness, and resilient deployment patterns across distributed systems, with emphasis on AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development practices.

The role emphasizes independent problem solving, strong collaboration, and driving automation within the SDLC. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.