JPMorgan Chase
Senior Lead Software Engineer- Platform / Linux Engineering
$176K–$260K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads hands-on engineering of Linux infrastructure platforms for low-latency electronic trading, including system design, performance optimization, automation, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Design, build, operate, and tune Linux compute platforms and next-generation deployment models for electronic trading.
- Write production code and automation, and optimize performance across hardware, kernel, and network layers.
- Guide adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices; mentor teams and advise stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Strong programming skills for production-grade tooling and automation; expertise in Linux engineering and low-latency environments.
- Hands-on kernel-bypass networking experience with Solarflare Onload and configuration management experience such as Chef or Ansible.
- Experience with enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development, IPv4 networking, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native/container orchestration, and cross-functional team leadership.
Nice to have
- Server hardware selection, BIOS/firmware tuning, and bare-metal provisioning experience.
- Familiarity with observability/telemetry stacks, cryptography, electronic-trading market-data or messaging technologies, or PostgreSQL.
Pay
$175,750.00-$260,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Python, Go, Bash, Solarflare Onload, Chef, Ansible
AI focus
Use Agentic AI and approved AI-assisted tools to accelerate engineering, automate research and remediation, support code review, testing, troubleshooting, and incident analysis, and establish validation and responsible-use practices.
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