Principal Software Engineer - Developer Platform Engineering

If you are looking for a game-changing career at one of the world's leading financial institutions, you've come to the right place.

As a Principal Engineer, Developer Platform Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Digital Channels & Connectivity team, you will own the technical strategy and execution for the developer platform that serves a portfolio of 1,000+ services and a 1,000-engineer organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role for an engineer who sets direction rather than waits for it.

You will define how engineers discover, build, ship, and operate software-through a unified developer portal, first-class observability and monitoring, and safe, controlled feature delivery.

You will set standards, build the paved roads and self-service tooling that make the right thing the easy thing, and influence architectural decisions as a peer to senior engineering leaders.

If you want real ownership, deep technical challenges, and the chance to raise the bar for an entire organization, this is the role for you.

Job responsibilities


* Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the internal developer platform, delivering a unified developer portal (e.g., Backstage-style) with software catalog, service ownership, golden-path templates, and self-service scaffolding that teams adopt with minimal specialist support


* Set technical direction for observability and monitoring standards across the portfolio-structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, SLOs, and error budgets-and drive adoption through scorecards and release-readiness gates


* Build the observability platform and paved roads that make instrumentation a default, correlating signals across logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to surface service health and portfolio-level risk


* Define and own the feature-flagging and progressive-delivery strategy, including flag lifecycle governance, safe rollout and rollback patterns, experimentation, and controls that reduce release risk at scale


* Establish platform standards for service onboarding, dependency and ownership metadata, scorecards, and tech-health signals surfaced directly in the developer portal


* Deliver self-service tooling and inner-sourced frameworks that shift operability, instrumentation, and release safety earlier in the development lifecycle


* Influence standards, architectural decisions, and release readiness as a peer to senior engineering leaders, and coach application teams on adopting resilient, operable, platform-first engineering practices


* Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), while defining guardrails for vali...