Staff Software Engineer

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred or equivalent practical experience).

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing distributed systems.

• Proven experience leading large-scale platform engineering or infrastructure engineering initiatives.

• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Kotlin.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and API design.

• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native applications.

• Expertise with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience building CI/CD platforms and software delivery pipelines.

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

• Experience implementing observability using metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring platforms.

• Knowledge of modern authentication, authorization, secrets management, and enterprise security practices.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with demonstrated ability to influence executive and engineering leadership.

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).

• Experience with Backstage or similar developer portal technologies.

• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.

• Experience implementing platform engineering practices aligned with DevSecOps.

• Knowledge of FinOps, platform cost optimization, and cloud governance.

• Experience operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms.

• Contributions to open-source projects or engineering communities.

• Experience working within highly regulated industries such as financial services.

• Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for enterprise platform engineering capabilities.

• Design and build scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available platform services used by hundreds of engineering teams.

• Lead architecture and implementation of developer platforms, CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native services.

• Drive platform standardization, reusable engineering patterns, and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity.

• Establish engineering best practices around software architecture, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence.

• Lead cross-organizational technical initiatives involving multiple business units and engineering organizations.

• Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, design discussions, and critical production incidents.

• Mentor Senior Engineers while fostering technical excellence across engineering communities.

• Partner with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business and regulatory requirements.

• Champion automation across the software development lifecycle, reducing manual effort and improving engineering velocity.

• Drive adoption of cloud-native technologies, Infrastructure as Code, container platforms, and modern deployment strategies.

• Influence technology direction through RFCs, design documents, technical standards, and engineering governance.
  
  Technical Skills

• Languages

  Java, Go, Python, Kotlin, TypeScript,

• Cloud & Infrastructure

  AWS (preferred), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform (Must have), Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools

• Observability

  OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog

• Architecture

  Distributed systems, Event-driven architecture, REST and gRPC APIs, Domain-driven design, Platform APIs

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