Engineer II

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to join our team. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability and performance of our system and services. You will bridge the gap between development and operations, building tools and automation to improve system stability and developer opportunity.

 Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams to build reliable system
• Develop nonfunctional features ensuring reliability in system
• Implement monitoring, alerting and logging to ensure system health
• Develop tools to automate operational tasks such as deployments, rollbacks and configurations
• Perform root cause analysis and postmortems for incidents and outages
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to incidents
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions focused on system design.

 Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field
• 4 years of experience in software development, SRE, DevOps
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with containerization
• Experience with at least one programming language (e.g, Python, Go, Java )
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Knowledge of version control

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with distributed system and microservice
• Experience with incident management framework

 Good to have:

• Experience in AI OPs
• Experience in Linux systems
• Experience in Spark Hadoop architecture

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Salary : $85,000 - $150,000