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Software Engineer II

American Express

Posted 16 Oct 2026

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This is an engineering role focused on building, operating, and enhancing enterprise observability and cloud-native platforms. The engineer will develop monitoring and logging capabilities, dashboards, alerts, deployment automation, and platform integrations while supporting Linux and VMware-based environments.

Responsibilities

    • Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, recording rules, and queries across Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, and Loki.

    • Develop PromQL and LogQL for infrastructure and application monitoring, capacity analysis, troubleshooting, and service health.

    • Operate and troubleshoot observability components, data collection pipelines, integrations, and platform dependencies.

    • Deploy and maintain Kubernetes applications using Helm charts, deployments, configuration, and GitHub Actions workflows.

    • Create Python scripts and small utilities to automate routine monitoring, validation, reporting, and integration tasks.

    • Support Linux systems and VMware virtual machines used by observability and platform services.

    • Investigate incidents using metrics, logs, dashboards, and infrastructure data, and document root causes and corrective actions.

    • Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and platform teams to onboard services and improve monitoring coverage and alert quality.

Qualifications

    • Minimum experience: 5-7 years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, observability, or infrastructure operations.

    • Observability stack: Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, and Loki in production or enterprise environments.

    • Query languages: Practical experience writing and troubleshooting PromQL and LogQL queries for metrics, logs, recording rules, alerts, and operational analysis.

    • Grafana: Experience creating and maintaining dashboards, variables, panels, visualizations, alerts, and reusable monitoring views.

    • Python: Basic understanding of Python for scripting, automation, API usage, and operational tooling.

    • Kubernetes: Working knowledge of Kubernetes resources, deployments, services, configuration, troubleshooting, and workload operations.

    • Helm and CI/CD: Experience creating or maintaining Helm charts and deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

    • Linux administration: Hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting experience, including processes, filesystems, networking, system services, packages, and performance.

    • VMware: Working knowledge of VMware vSphere, virtual machines, provisioning concepts, and virtual infrastructure operations.

    • Engineering practices: Understanding of version control, code review, testing, documentation, incident response, and secure change management.

    • Collaboration: Good analytical, troubleshooting, written communication, and teamwork skills.

      Technology

    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Mimir
    • Loki
    • PromQL
    • LogQL
    • Python
    • Kubernetes
    • Helm Charts
    • GitHub Actions
    • Linux / RHEL
    • VMware vSphere