Director of Software Engineering- Virtual Private Cloud
Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we’ve got an opportunity just for you.
As a Director of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the VPC Network organization, you lead a critical technical area and drive firmwide impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You bring deep engineering expertise to lead the design and implementation of JPMC‑VPC—a software-defined networking platform that will replace legacy infrastructure and position the firm for decades of innovation—modernizing JPMorganChase’s network platform and advancing next-generation SDN to support resilience, scale, and continued innovation. You partner across product and engineering to deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way, while challenging the status quo and staying at the forefront of industry trends and best practices.
Job responsibilities
- Leads the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio; sets technical direction and drives measurable outcomes.
- Designs and architects core components of JPMC‑VPC, including control plane (OVN), data plane (OVS/DPU), software gateways, load balancers, and IPAM systems.
- Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives across teams and departments.
- Creates novel solutions and drives delivery of new production capabilities across teams and functions; ensures solutions are durable and reusable.
- Provides governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and success measures such as cost of ownership, maintainability, reliability, and portfolio operations.
- Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.
- Ensures engineering excellence by championing modern practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, and observability, and by driving operational stability.
- Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to senior leadership to enable well-informed decisions about technology investments and advancements.
- Collaborates with vendor partners (e.g., Red Hat, NVIDIA) on roadmap and integration; represents JPMorganChase in relevant open-source communities and industry forums when appropriate.
- Builds and develops talent through hiring, coaching, recognition, and creating high-performing, inclusive teams.
- Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 12+ years of experience in systems engineering, networking, distributed systems, or adjacent infrastructure platforms, with increasing scope of ownership and impact.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams of technologists delivering complex platforms/products at scale.
- Experience influencing across functions and managing senior stakeholder relationships; proven ability to deliver outcomes across multiple teams.
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical infrastructure.
- Strong engineering background with expertise in one or more: Go, Python, C/C++, Rust (ability to guide design/code quality and dive deep when needed).
- Hands-on experience with software-defined networking (SDN) technologies such as OVN, OVS, or equivalent.
- Expert-level knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, switching, load balancing.
- Experience with modern development practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability.
- Extensive practical cloud-native experience.
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent; building an inclusive engineering culture.
- Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with DPU/SmartNIC technologies (e.g., NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando, Intel IPU).
- Knowledge of eBPF, XDP, DPDK, or other high-performance networking frameworks.
- Experience with CNI implementations (Cilium, Calico, Flannel) and Kubernetes networking.
- Understanding of advanced routing/encapsulation: BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN, or similar.
- Experience working at code level on large-scale infrastructure platforms (design reviews, critical-path coding, and/or hands-on prototyping).
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Our Global Technology Infrastructure group is a team of innovators who love technology as much as you do. Together, you’ll use a disciplined, innovative and a business focused approach to develop a wide variety of high-quality products and solutions. You’ll work in a stable, resilient and secure operating environment where you—and the products you deliver—will thrive.
High Risk Roles (HRR) are sensitive roles within the technology organization that require high assurance of the integrity of staff by virtue of 1) sensitive cybersecurity and technology functions they perform within systems or 2) information they receive regarding sensitive cybersecurity or technology matters. Users in these roles are subject to enhanced pre-hire screening which includes both criminal and credit background checks (as allowed by law). The enhanced screening will need to be successfully completed prior to commencing employment or assignment.
Drive innovation and solution delivery while leading a technical area and serving as a primary decision maker for your teams