Software Engineer II

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights

• You will design, develop, test, debug and maintain application environments in a highly automated way. To do this you will use tools and scripts to automate deployment and monitor systems, with guidance and within a blueprint that the engineer enriches.
• As part of an agile team, install, maintain, and optimize tools and infrastructure to support our internal and customer related projects
• Keep operational topics and security in mind
• Interact with internal and external colleagues based at our German and Polish subsidiaries
• With expertise in operations, cloud, network, and monitoring, shape the continuous development of our SaaS platform and product landscape
• Develop new solutions in the area of infrastructure and tool operations and monitoring and being responsible for implementing them independently
• Support projects with expertise, analyze problems in the team, and drive optimizations
• Independently acquire knowledge of new tools and technologies and evaluate if they are suitable and economical for our projects
• Actively drive topics, always having the goal in mind and accepting challenges

• 3+ years of experience in cloud, systems, network and tool administration (bonus: knowledge and experience in AWS tech stack and services)
• Knowledge of DevOps toolchain: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, automation and configuration management
• Managing monitoring tools
• Troubleshooting and support for infrastructure and DevOps and application
• Experience working with a DevOps mindset (ship it as you would run it)
• Working in an international, distributed team
• Excellent English (C1) is a prerequisite, German, Japanese, Chinese a plus

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.