Senior Security Engineer (Java/Python) - Cloud & Resilience

JPMorgan Chase; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Security Engineer (Java/Python) to design and operate distributed, secure cloud-native systems across private and public clouds. You will contribute code in Java and Python, drive architecture decisions, and ensure security, auditability, and resilience throughout the SDLC.

The role requires strong communication, incident management experience, and a track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts.
• 5+ years applied security engineering experience.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems in production.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Python with maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve distributed systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and operability across private and public cloud environments.
• Contribute hands-on code in Java and Python, setting the standard for design, readability, testability, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain production-ready services using Java Spring frameworks, ensuring performance and resilience at scale.
• 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.
• Identify and remediate architectural risks, technical debt, and systemic quality gaps before they impact production.
• Review design proposals and code changes for correctness, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
• Own production behavior of systems end-to-end, including reliability, performance, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
• Champion strong software development lifecycle practices including design reviews, testing strategy, release hygiene, and rollback planning.
• Ensure systems continuously meet security, audit, and compliance expectations as a core part of day-to-day engineering.
• Serve as a technical mentor and role model, elevating the craft of senior engineers across the team.
• 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.

Skills

Java

Python

Cloud-native systems

Security engineering

CI/CD

Incident management

Code review

Communication skills

Education

Security engineering certification

Tools

Java Spring frameworks

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Security Engineer (Java/Python) to design and operate distributed, secure cloud-native systems across private and public clouds. You will contribute code in Java and Python, drive architecture decisions, and ensure security, auditability, and resilience throughout the SDLC.

The role requires strong communication, incident management experience, and a track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software in regulated environments.