Civil Engineer

Filetwigbay; Eugene (OR); On-site; USD 62,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking a Civil Engineer to tackle engineering challenges with autonomy to shape work-life balance. The role blends a salary range of $62,000 to $93,000 with opportunities to influence project delivery and team growth in Eugene, OR.

You will work on transforming large technology initiatives into deliverable steps, wire Rails APIs to Kubernetes, and monitor budgets while driving data-driven decisions for technology services.

Qualifications

• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project.
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking.
• Working familiarity with internship schedules and team norms at American Express.
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise.
• A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself.

Responsibilities

• Break large technology initiatives into MySQL increments Eugene can actually deliver.
• Wire Ruby on Rails APIs to Kubernetes consumers so data lands where Eugene teams expect it.
• Watch Django error budgets and pump the brakes before Eugene, OR burns through them.
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services.
• Turn American Express's Networking on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Spike a Nginx proof of concept fast when American Express needs a yes-or-no answer.
• Pull Django telemetry into dashboards American Express leaders actually open.
• Automate the manual Express.js chores that quietly drain Eugene, OR engineering hours.

Skills

Ownership

Curiosity

Team norms

Portfolio/work samples

Mentally unblocked teamwork

Job description

American Express pairs quietly-relentless engineering challenges with the autonomy to solve them, and we need a Civil Engineer to dive in. This role blends $62,000 - $93,000 pay with the autonomy to shape Work-Life Balance work and a team that grows together.

Key Responsibilities

• Break large technology initiatives into MySQL increments Eugene can actually deliver
• Wire Ruby on Rails APIs to Kubernetes consumers so data lands where Eugene teams expect it
• Watch Django error budgets and pump the brakes before Eugene, OR burns through them
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Turn American Express's Networking on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Spike a Nginx proof of concept fast when American Express needs a yes-or-no answer
• Pull Django telemetry into dashboards American Express leaders actually open
• Automate the manual Express.js chores that quietly drain Eugene, OR engineering hours

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• Working familiarity with internship schedules and team norms at American Express
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise
• A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself

Ask anyone in Eugene about American Express and you'll hear the same thing: a warm-yet-rigorous crew that ships fast and sweats the Critical Thinking details. Giving and receiving direct feedback is a skill we practice openly across every level.

American Express offers $62,000 - $93,000 plus the autonomy to set your own schedule and the support to keep growing.