JPMorgan Executive Director Principal Software Engineer 

United States, New York 

484901891

Job responsibilities:

• Drive the design and implementation of AWS large-scale distributed systems capturing billions of real-time messages daily and computing eTrading analytics and signals.
• Automate provisioning of AWS multi-region network, compute and storage services that non-disruptively support eTrading activities 24x7.
• Enforce quantitative driven approach to proactively monitor performance, capacity, latency and cost of AWS-hosted solutions during routine and extra-volatile market events.
• Provide cross-functional leadership in building microservice-driven API to tech teams producing and consuming, on-prem or cloud-natively, the AWS-stored data.
• Pilot emerging technologies that help quants, traders and sales explore petabytes of stored data.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in design, deployment and performance optimization of large Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS, including networking load balancing, ingress controllers, node group management and workload orchestration.
• Proficiency in optimizing FSx for Lustre and EBS performance for latency-sensitive applications and managing storage costs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems with relentless focus on resiliency improvement.
• Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Go for automation of CI/CD and SRE tasks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Experience with vector or timeseries databases such as KDB.
• Familiarity with building Datadog real-time dashboards
• Experience with managing SageMaker workflows.