Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale software or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems and platform engineering, including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design.
• Hands-on experience with data platform areas such as batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, data processing, and data serving.
• Proven ability to build production-grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls.
• Strong knowledge of data governance and controls, including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, with strong API and systems design skills.
• Ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
• A highly motivated, self-starting approach.
• Preferred: Experience building self-service platform products and improving developer experience through portals, templates, and golden paths.
• Preferred: Experience operating platforms in cloud and containerized environments with infrastructure automation.
• Preferred: Experience implementing metadata-driven architectures and standardized data product patterns.
• Preferred: Experience building controls for sensitive data, including data classification, policy enforcement, and privacy-by-design.
• Preferred: Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmaps for data platform capabilities, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
• Design and implement scalable platform services and reusable frameworks for standardized data onboarding, curation, and consumption.
• Lead complex initiatives end to end, from discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and production readiness.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity management, and cost efficiency.
• Lead design reviews and provide reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for engineering teams.
• Build and maintain automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and repeatable onboarding.
• Improve operational performance through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing improvement.
• Partner with security, risk, and controls stakeholders to meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements.
• Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress to senior stakeholders using metrics and outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen engineering practices through hands-on leadership, code reviews, and technical community engagement.

• API
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• Network

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect exceptional professionals with J.P. Morgan. As a Principal Software Engineer in Corporate Technology, you will be a senior individual contributor shaping firmwide data platform capabilities that support secure, scalable, and reliable data products. We offer a competitive rewards package and, for eligible roles, commission-based pay or discretionary incentives. Benefits may include comprehensive healthcare, on-site wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching, subject to eligibility. We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations. Our Corporate Technology team develops applications and supports corporate functions across Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and the Corporate Administrative Office, with a focus on evolving technology needs and controls.

last updated 42 week of 2026