Software Engineer III - Performance and Resiliency Engineering

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

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job 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 (metrics/logs/traces/APM), actionable alerting, incident triage, and root-cause analysis leading to durable remediation.
• Apply resiliency patterns: timeouts/retries, circuit breakers, backpressure/rate limiting, 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 where applicable; drive autoscaling strategy and right-sizing.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience improving the performance and stability of critical, high-volume platforms.
• Experience in performance engineering for distributed systems and/or SRE-style reliability engineering in production.
• Strong cloud/container background (AWS + Kubernetes/EKS, ECS etc.).
• Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise- authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on with load/performance tools (JMeter, Gatling, k6) and JVM profiling.
• Experience with resiliency patterns and chaos/fault-injection testing.
• Proficient with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for baselines and capacity planning.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQ for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction. Design and deliver market-leading technology products in a secure and scalable way as a seasoned member of an agile team