Software Engineer II

As American Express continues to grow, so does the technology infrastructure that powers our products and services globally. Our organization is focused on enabling engineers to rapidly build and deploy new applications, helping American Express bring products to market quickly, efficiently, and reliably while delivering exceptional experiences for our customers around the world. As a Software Engineer (E1), you will join a team building platforms, services, and developer capabilities that simplify how applications are developed and operated at scale. Some of the engineering challenges the team works on include: Defining and improving the developer experience for the next generation of American Express applications. Building automation to provision infrastructure and deploy software across hundreds of applications. Developing and operating highly available global services with compute and data distributed across geographically diverse environments. Building cloud-native platforms and services that are secure, reliable, scalable, and extensible. Improving automation, deployment, observability, and operational capabilities across our technology ecosystem. Our technology environment includes Go, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python; React for browser-based applications; GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions for source control and CI/CD; and Kubernetes-managed containers running across private and public cloud environments. Additional technologies used across our ecosystem include GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, Postgres, Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, OpenTracing, Jaeger, Prometheus, and Grafana.