Sr Lead Security Engineer - Role Core

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Security Engineer to enhance, build, and deliver trusted technology products securely, scalably, and efficiently. You will be part of an agile team, driving business impact through deep technical expertise across multiple technologies and applications.

The role emphasizes simple, elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and adherence to secure development practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building high performance API-first services and integrating tooling.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability (multi-language).
• Advanced knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS inspection, and API gateway patterns.
• Proven ability to build scalable distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience using enterprise AI capabilities to support security workflows and validate outputs.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives decisions affecting product design and operations; acts as subject matter expert.
• Contributes to engineering practices and SDLC frameworks across the organization.
• Promotes diverse, inclusive team culture and responsible technology choices.
• Uses enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate security risk analysis and ensure data handling compliance.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices in SDLC/toolchain for stronger security testing and traceability.

Skills

API-first services

Programming languages

Security engineering

SDLC

AI capabilities usage

Education

CS/CE/Math degree

Tools

API Gateway

Custom proxy development

SIEM integration

SSE

Job description

As a Senior Lead Software Security Engineer at JPMorganChase, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business, tactical to system goals to specific interfaces.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies. Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate security risk analysis and documentation (e.g., synthesizing threat assessments), validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training and certification with 5+ years of experience building high performance API first services and integrating tooling
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability. Advanced in two or more programming language(s) C#, C++, Go, Python, and Java
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS protocols, SSL/TLS inspection, traffic interception, API gateway patterns
• Proven ability to build scalable distributed systems handling high throughput traffic in a cloud native environment.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 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 security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• API Gateway Development
• Custom proxy development
• SSE, CASB or SIEM integration experience