Site Reliability Engineer III

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.

Site Reliability Engineer III advances efforts to enhance system resilience, scalability, and performance through feature development, automation, architectural design, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery planning, while promoting best practices for continuous improvement and reliability.

Qualifications

• Education Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advance degree preferred
• Knowledge of modern observability stack – Splunk, Elastic Search, Prometheus, Grafana
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and microservices architecture
• Knowledge of observability tools and methodologies, including experience with logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance analysis platforms
• Knowledge of cloud-based Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Work Experience: Experience in software development, or technology operations, with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience in Linux/Unix systems, object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java), scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash), and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Licenses and Certifications: Advanced certification in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or related is a plus
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Manages the collaboration with Software Engineering teams to design, develop, and implement features that enhance system resilience, scalability, and performance, proactively identifying and resolving system bottlenecks and failure points
• Develops and refines sophisticated automation tools and frameworks, including advanced infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, to streamline operational workflows, deployment processes, and infrastructure management, ensuring high system efficiency
• Engages in architectural design discussions, ensuring that advanced reliability, scalability, and performance considerations are integrated into strategic decision-making processes
• Designs and executes comprehensive chaos engineering experiments and advanced resiliency testing, analyzing results to implement robust improvements that enhance system robustness and recovery capabilities
• Develops, optimizes, and maintains comprehensive disaster recovery plans and business continuity strategies, ensuring systems can recover quickly and effectively from complex and unexpected disruptions
• Advocates for observability practices by promoting and implementing best practices such as error budgeting, service-level objectives (SLOs), and service-level indicators (SLIs), contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and reliability
• Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives