JPMorgan Chase
Principal SRE
$204K–$285K
Jersey City, NJ · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years specified; requires experience leading technologists and complex SRE projects, managing stakeholders and teams, and influencing across complex organizations.
About the job
Leads firmwide SRE strategy, technical standards, and teams responsible for the reliability, resilience, scale, and performance of mission-critical production systems.
What you'll do
- Develops and guides engineers and leaders, including hiring, talent development, and team growth.
- Influences executive decisions and leads complex, cross-business SRE initiatives covering design, scaling, resilience, and performance.
- Sets and enforces SRE technical standards and operating practices, including automation, incident management, and continuous improvement.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated experience leading technologists through complex technology issues and influencing culture and change at scale.
- Proven experience hiring, developing, and recognizing talent and building engineering and leadership capability.
- Experience influencing across complex, matrixed organizations and delivering at scale, including managing stakeholders, projects, and teams.
- Meets the SREM05 Bar Raiser standard across all four SRE competencies and can credibly act as an SRE Bar Raiser.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting mission-critical production systems with accountability for availability, performance, and incident response at firm scale.
- Prior service as an SRE Bar Raiser, or equivalent responsibility for setting and defending an engineering discipline’s technical standard.
Pay
$204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, SLIs, SLOs, Real User Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, configuration-as-code
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