JPMorgan Chase
Data Platform Principal Software Engineer
$204K–$285K
Jersey City, NJ · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
About the job
Architects, builds, and operates enterprise data platform capabilities, setting technical direction and delivering secure, scalable, reliable data products.
What you'll do
- Define technical strategy and build reusable services for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and quality.
- Own complex initiatives from architecture through production readiness, and establish standards for reliability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Drive operational excellence and governance while partnering across teams, influencing stakeholders, and mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- Extensive experience delivering large-scale software or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise, including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design.
- Hands-on experience with batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data serving; proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills.
- Experience building production-grade systems with testing, deployment automation, monitoring, operational controls, and knowledge of data governance and controls.
Nice to have
- Experience with self-service platform products, cloud and containerized environments, infrastructure automation, or metadata-driven architectures.
- Experience with sensitive-data controls or in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
Pay
$204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary
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