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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

Join the Database Engineering team in building the next generation of public and private cloud database platforms.

Ever wondered what it takes to build a highly available, global scale enterprise-wide private cloud platform with an Open-Source technology stack and to achieve up-times SLA of Amazon, Google and Force.com?

Then you should consider this innovative and disruptive opportunity where you can be a key transformative contributor to a world-class engineering team building and maintaining the DBaaS platform for American Express.

The goal of the team is to continue to build upon a robust platform in support of hosting databases both in the private cloud environment and multiple public clouds.

Key Responsibilities:

+ Develop APIs and self-service interfaces that enable developer-friendly access to cloud databases.

+ Implement observability solutions and telemetry pipelines for monitoring, anomaly detection, and auto-remediation using AI/ML techniques (in collaboration with data science partners).

+ Contribute to the development of reusable Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD templates for consistent infrastructure deployment and configuration.

+ Participate in the buildout of migration frameworks and tools for heterogeneous database transitions (e.g., SQL Server to PostgreSQL, Couchbase to Firestore).

+ Ensure security, compliance, and cost-efficiency are built into all solutions from the ground up.

+ Troubleshoot platform issues and help continuously improve system resiliency and performance.

+ Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code; participate in code reviews and design sessions.

+ Collaborate across product, operations, and enterprise architecture teams to meet business and technology goals.

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express.

Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

+ Use cutting-edge technologies to implement a Cloud Database Platform.

+ Understand the current implementation of the database platform and look for improvements to the platform and dependencies.

+ Work with Product Owners to understand upcoming features and ensure proper design.

Minimum Qualifications:

+ 5 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

+ Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

+ Experience working with cloud platforms and cloud-native services.

+ Familiarity with one or more database platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra).

+ Knowledge of Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code principles.

+ Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

+ Exposure to AI/ML or anomaly detection frameworks is a strong plus.

+ Understanding of secure, scalable software development best practices.

+ Strong problem-solving skills, with a passion for delivering reliable and developer-centric solutions.

At the core of Software Engineering, every member of our team should be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business skills you'll use every day, including:

+ Agile Practices

+ Programming Languages and Frameworks

+ Business Analysis

+ Analytical Thinking

+ Business Product Knowledge

Qualifications

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

+ Competitive base salaries

+ Bonus incentives

+ 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

+ Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

+ Flexible working model with hybrid arrangements depending on role and business need

+ 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

+ Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will work in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).

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

**Job:** Technologies

**Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 25007988