Principal Software Engineer- Telemetry/Observability at JPMorgan Chase
Seattle, WA
$204,250–$285,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and operating observability and telemetry infrastructure for Virtual Private Cloud environments. Day-to-day work spans designing end-to-end telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces), developing CI/CD tooling, maintaining monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus, and creating reusable frameworks and SDKs for use across engineering teams. Suits an experienced platform or infrastructure engineer with deep Python, Linux networking, and distributed systems expertise.
Senior level · 10+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 410 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 310–530
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title is 'Principal Software Engineer' but the role's scope — owning a platform domain, influencing standards across teams, and serving as a subject-matter expert — is consistent with a Senior engineer at a large institution rather than a true org-wide Principal; seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus are listed together with 'and/or' connectives in both the required and job-responsibilities sections. They are emitted as three separate skills (each with the others as alternatives) because the JD treats them as interchangeable options for the same observability requirement rather than a combined stack.
OpenTelemetry and Terraform appear only under the 'Preferred qualifications' section and are marked as preferred.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Compensation is quoted as a base salary range for Seattle, WA; additional commission-based pay and discretionary incentive compensation may also apply per the posting.
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