Database Automation Engineer
Database Automation Engineer
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$ 85000 - 150000
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Salary Range: $85000.00 to $150000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other jobrelated factors.
We back you with benefits that support your holistic wellbeing 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 wellbeing 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 onsite 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. Thats 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 inperson culture. Depending on role and business needs colleagues will work in a hybrid model (combination of inoffice and virtual days).
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You Lead the Way. Weve 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 youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits programs and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express youll be recognized for your contributions leadership and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together well win as a team striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and lets 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 enterprisewide private cloud platform with an OpenSource technology stack and to achieve uptimes SLA of Amazon Google and
Then you should consider this innovative and disruptive opportunity where you can be a key transformative contributor to a worldclass 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 selfservice interfaces that enable developerfriendly access to cloud databases.
- Implement observability solutions and telemetry pipelines for monitoring anomaly detection and autoremediation 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 costefficiency are built into all solutions from the ground up.
- Troubleshoot platform issues and help continuously improve system resiliency and performance.
- Write clean welltested 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.
Heres just some of what youll be doing:
- Use cuttingedge 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 cloudnative services.
- Familiarity with one or more database platforms (e.g. PostgreSQL MongoDB Cassandra).
- Knowledge of Terraform Helm Kubernetes and InfrastructureasCode 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 problemsolving skills with a passion for delivering reliable and developercentric 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 youll use every day including:
- Agile Practices
- Programming Languages and Frameworks
- Business Analysis
- Analytical Thinking
- Business Product Knowledge
Employment Type
Full-Time
