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Principal Security Engineer

JPMorgan Chase
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 10/29/2025 CLOSED ON 12/28/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Security Engineer position at JPMorgan Chase?

Propel your engineering excellence to new heights by becoming a part of a talented and exceptional team. Take your place among the best in the industry.


 

As a Principal Security Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance and develop cybersecurity software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes.

 

Job responsibilities

  • Identifies and implements tools and processes to allow efficient sharing of data and information to promote business agility while ensuring regulatory compliance
  • Evaluates and proposes new security-related products and services
  • Assists with forensic analysis of security incidents
  • Continually assesses new trends in technology and determines implications on the overall security control process
  • Drives security engineering thought leadership within the product line
  • Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • This is a software engineering role that requires hands-on coding experience
  • Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 10 years applied experience
  • Experience developing security engineering solutions for public cloud-based applications and infrastructure
  • Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine net new solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
  • Ability to present and effectively communicate with executive audiences
  • Expert in one or more programming languages
  • Advanced knowledge of software application development and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Experience successfully reviewing and implementing new security-related products
  • Advanced knowledge of industry leading security practices
  • Understanding of the business and knowledgeable of latest internal and external threat trends
  • Significant experience with threat modeling 

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

  • Experience leading a product as a product owner or product manager
 
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