Lead Software Engineer - AWS RDS Postgres Database
JPMorganChase
Plano, TX, US
Onsite
2026-06-26
Estimated salary · Plano
$176k–$267k
Low
$86K
Median
$120K
High
$155K
Market in Plano · BLS OEWS 2024
Job description
**JOB DESCRIPTION**
Partner closely with product, operations, security, and controls stakeholders, and help drive design quality and operational excellence for production workloads.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Cloud Foundation Services, you will lead within the team and domain by owning features and services end\-to\-end, guiding designs for moderately complex initiatives, and setting expectations for engineering quality and operational rigor.
Job Responsibilities
* Lead the design and implementation of significant components of the AWS database platform (Postgres and RDS SQL Server) and enabling infrastructure, from requirements through build, test, release, and steady\-state operations.
* Develop secure, high\-quality production code and infrastructure automation (primarily in Python and Terraform), and review and debug code written by others to ensure correctness, performance, and maintainability.
* Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations within the team and domain by proposing pragmatic architectures, tradeoffs, and standards aligned to firm SDLC, security, and controls expectations.
* Partner with operations, SRE, security, risk, and controls stakeholders to deliver compliant solutions, improve observability, reduce operational toil, and ensure audit\-ready processes and artifacts.
* Drive automation and CI/CD improvements, including pipeline reliability, quality gates, testing strategy, and repeatable environment provisioning to support safe and fast delivery.
* **Drives team adoption of enterprise\-authorized AI\-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI\-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root\-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patte
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