Lead Security Engineer - Java Backend, AI

About the role

Shape the future of security engineering—your expertise protects systems at global scale. As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls team, you deliver software solutions that prevent misuse and malicious behavior. You drive system design, engineering practices, and operations across services to ensure high-quality, resilient systems in private and public cloud environments.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve distributed systems with reliability, scalability, security, and operability across cloud environments
• Contribute hands-on code in Java and Python, setting standards for design, readability, testability, and maintainability
• Develop and maintain production-ready services using Java Spring frameworks, ensuring performance and resilience
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation
• Identify and remediate architectural risks, technical debt, and systemic quality gaps before production impact

What you need

• 5–9 years in cybersecurity
• Java
• Incident response
• Python
• Compliance
• NoSQL
• DynamoDB
• Any graduate

Good to have

• MongoDB
• Test automation
• System design

What you get