JPMorgan Chase
Senior Lead Software Engineer
$176K–$260K
Jersey City, NJ · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
About the job
Leads engineering for virtualized cluster lifecycle automation, production reliability, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development practices.
What you'll do
- Design and automate provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance, and decommissioning for virtualized clusters.
- Lead production deployments and reliability work, troubleshoot incidents, and improve recurring operational issues.
- Guide engineers through reviews and technical mentoring, and document design decisions for auditability.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Proficiency in Go and Java, with experience building scalable server-side services.
- Experience developing ESX infrastructure automation and automating OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and Day-2 operations.
- Experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools and setting validation standards, with knowledge of responsible AI use in engineering workflows.
Nice to have
- Temporal or similar workflow orchestration at scale; virtualization automation experience.
- Mentoring engineers; familiarity with VMware ESXi, OpenShift, or KVM; cloud-native experience.
Pay
$175,750.00-$260,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Go, Java, ESX, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Temporal, VMware ESXi, KVM
AI focus
Leads adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering for coding, code review, refactoring, testing, troubleshooting, and incident/root-cause analysis; establishes validation standards and responsible-use controls.
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