As a Performance Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms (IP) organization, you provide expertise and engineering excellence in the software development life cycle to ensure that applications, hardware, and systems are optimized for performance and user experience. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm's business objectives. Use your passion to solve customer challenges while bringing down the total cost of ownership.
Job responsibilities
- Understand the wide variety of internal & external products across compute, storage, network, database, and middleware to identify bottlenecks in architecture, design, and code.
- Monitor and collect performance statistics and analyze product performance and scalability across a variety of hardware, software, and configurations.
- Anticipate and Identify issues - Performance Engineers look for potential problems that could negatively impact performance and work to eliminate or mitigate them.
- Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons.
- Design, develop and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis.
- Develop process to track ROI and application TCO.
- Profile application performance and recommend appropriate hardware solutions for various application profiles.
- Use a variety of tools and programs to test and analyze code, as an expert in designing, running, and interpreting test results.
- Act as performance advisors within teams to find the best way to scale infrastructure ensuring that performance considerations are integrated into development practices.
- Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
- Experience working with modern private & public cloud infrastructure platforms.
- 8 years of hands-on experience in performance troubleshooting skills
- Optimize software solutions for execution speed, memory efficiency and communication latency.
- Experienced in both Linux and Windows operating systems, a broad variety of databases, and infrastructure across compute, network and storage.
- Benchmark performance metrics for any given business case.
- Strong communication skills with ability to present, and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives. Experience in influencing engineers and leaders.
- Experience creating, tracking, measuring, and interpreting Key Performance Indicators as a basis for developing performance recommendations and roadmaps.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs.
- Direct experience in Performance Engineering.
- Experience working in a consultancy, proposal development, and engagement delivery.
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practice.
- Published research papers, industry articles, and product performance technical papers.
ABOUT US
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Global Technology Infrastructure group is a team of innovators who love technology as much as you do. Together, you'll use a disciplined, innovative and a business focused approach to develop a wide variety of high-quality products and solutions. You'll work in a stable, resilient and secure operating environment where you-and the products you deliver-will thrive.
High Risk Roles (HRR) are sensitive roles within the technology organization that require high assurance of the integrity of staff by virtue of 1) sensitive cybersecurity and technology functions they perform within systems or 2) information they receive regarding sensitive cybersecurity or technology matters. Users in these roles are subject to enhanced pre-hire screening which includes both criminal and credit background checks (as allowed by law). The enhanced screening will need to be successfully completed prior to commencing employment or assignment.