SRE Software Engineer III

JPMorganChase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase seeks a Site Reliability Engineer (Software Engineer III) to balance hands-on development with technical resiliency within Consumer & Community Banking. You will help build scalable services, improve production stability through automation, and lead incident responses with cross-functional partners.

The role emphasizes observability, capacity management, and secure, high-quality software delivery, with on-call duties as needed and use of enterprise AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on software development experience in Python or Java for production-grade systems.
• Experience operating and improving reliability of distributed systems on Linux/Unix.
• Experience with cloud and virtualization concepts and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and improve reliability for large-scale, distributed services by applying software and systems engineering best practices to production operations.
• Design and deliver automation that reduces manual operational work, improves recovery time, and strengthens production stability and service resilience.
• Lead response and coordination for high-priority incidents, drive issue triage to resolution, and facilitate blameless post-incident reviews that result in measurable fixes.
• Partner with application development teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle to enable sustainable releases, safer change practices, and repeatable deployments.
• Implement self-healing patterns, resilience strategies, and capacity management practices to improve availability and reduce operational toil.
• Build and evolve end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces) and alerting standards to enable actionable monitoring and reduce noise.
• Apply data-driven analysis of incidents and usage patterns to anticipate reliability risks and proactively prevent customer-impacting issues.
• Support a balanced operating model that includes both engineering delivery and operational responsibilities, including participation in on-call rotations as needed.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Skills

Python

Java

Shell scripting

Incident leadership

Communication

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

You will balance hands-on development with technical resiliency. As a Site Reliability Engineer (Software Engineer III) at JPMorganChase within Consumer & Community Banking, you will help build and run resilient, scalable services by combining software engineering with operational excellence. You will improve production stability through automation, reliability engineering, and disciplined incident management, partnering across engineering and product teams to reduce risk and accelerate safe delivery.

Job Responsibilities

• Engineer and improve reliability for large-scale, distributed services by applying software and systems engineering best practices to production operations.


• Design and deliver automation that reduces manual operational work, improves recovery time, and strengthens production stability and service resilience.


• Lead response and coordination for high-priority incidents, drive issue triage to resolution, and facilitate blameless post-incident reviews that result in measurable fixes.


• Partner with application development teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle to enable sustainable releases, safer change practices, and repeatable deployments.


• Implement self-healing patterns, resilience strategies, and capacity management practices to improve availability and reduce operational toil.


• Build and evolve end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces) and alerting standards to enable actionable monitoring and reduce noise.


• Apply data-driven analysis of incidents and usage patterns to anticipate reliability risks and proactively prevent customer-impacting issues.


• Support a balanced operating model that includes both engineering delivery and operational responsibilities, including participation in on-call rotations as needed.


• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.


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

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience


• Hands-on software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, shell scripting) supporting production-grade systems.


• Experience operating and improving reliability of distributed systems on Linux/Unix environments, including troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and data layers.


• Experience with cloud and virtualization concepts, APIs, and modern engineering practices for scalable and fault-tolerant services.


• Experience building observability and operational diagnostics using monitoring/logging platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, cloud-native telemetry tools).


• Working knowledge of version control and modern delivery practices (e.g., Git-based workflows, continuous integration/continuous delivery) with a focus on quality and secure engineering.


• Strong critical thinking, incident leadership, and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, and operations stakeholders.


• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.


• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including deployment patterns and operational troubleshooting.


• Experience designing frameworks that improve developer experience, release velocity, code health, and engineering standards.


• Experience with performance testing, bottleneck analysis, and capacity planning for high-throughput services.


• Experience administering application servers, web servers, and databases (e.g., Tomcat, Nginx, Oracle, MySQL) in production contexts.


• Certifications in cloud architecture or data platforms (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent).


• 5+ years of related industry experience across application development, site reliability engineering, or DevOps in large-scale environments.

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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 FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.