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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on support for the runtime operation of our applications, ensuring high availability and performance

• Collaborate with software engineering and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot and resolve runtime issues, including performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and system failures

• Contribute to the design and implementation of monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to proactively identify and address potential runtime issues

• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis efforts to ensure the stability and resilience of the applications

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand application requirements and provide input on runtime and operational considerations during the software development lifecycle

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of runtime automation and tooling to streamline operational processes and improve efficiency

• Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team

• Mentoring your peers and demonstrate a passion for continuous learning environment for the team

• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features

• Good attitude, communication, willingness to learn and collaborate

• Bring a culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement

• Challenging status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

• Experience in software engineering, infrastructure operations, or a related field, with a focus on runtime operations and application support, preferred

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and containerization technologies, with experience in supporting critical business applications being a plus

• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools, as well as incident management best practices, to ensure the reliability and performance of applications in a production environment

• Practical experience on implementation various system integration solutions, such as, APIs and Data integration layers (Batch & Real-Time)

• Experience in design and developing mission critical highly available enterprise applications and Java applications performance tuning

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and platforms, especially GIT, Maven, and Jenkins

• Good communication skills - able to explain concepts to product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them

• Hands on experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as DB2, Redis, Postgres, Couchbase etc.

• Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work well in a diverse team-focused environment

• Solid programming and scripting skills, with the ability to automate operational tasks using tools such as Python and Ansible

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities, with a focus on understanding and addressing runtime issues in a timely manner

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

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 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.