Software Engineer III - Sre

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, United Kingdom · Commercial & Investment Bank

Software Engineer III - SRE role focused on championing observability, diagnosing performance issues, and ensuring application resiliency within a large corporate environment. Requires experience in system engineering, software development, and SRE toolsets.

What you'd actually do

  1. Champion observability best practices across application portfolio: Implement standardized observability frameworks in multiple applications, partnering with core developers to write instrumentation code, establish testing protocols, and manage release processes.
  2. Diagnose and resolve complex application performance issues: Troubleshoot and remediate JVM-related problems including memory leaks, garbage collection inefficiencies, thread pool exhaustion, and concurrency issues using profiling tools and heap/thread dump analysis to ensure application stability and optimal resource utilization.
  3. Identify and remediate resiliency gaps through defensive coding practices: Analyze codebases to detect vulnerabilities and implement defensive patterns including error handling, input validation, graceful degradation, and fault isolation to build robust, failure-resistant applications.
  4. Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  5. Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems

Skills

Required

  • system engineering
  • software development
  • SRE related field
  • observability principals
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • SRE / Observability toolsets (Grafana, Prometheus & Dynatrace)
  • Observability concepts (logs, metrics, traces)
  • OpenTelemetry
  • coding in one or more languages
  • developing, debugging, and maintaining code
  • modern programming languages
  • database querying languages
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • software applications
  • technical processes

Nice to have

  • modern front-end technologies
  • cloud technologies