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American Express Senior Engineer - Cloud APIs & Orchestration in Phoenix, Arizona
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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.
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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.
About American Express Cloud Engineering: American Express Enterprise Cloud provides a comprehensive platform that enables business critical applications to have Faster Time-to-Market for American Express. Enterprise Cloud offers dynamic rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Data services, Chaos engineering and CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. Enterprise Cloud enables Application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.American Express is embarking on an exciting Multi Cloud Hybrid Cloud transformation journey and is in search of an innovative and critical thinking engineers to build our Multi Cloud Hybrid Cloud Platform. About this Role and Responsibilities This position will report into the ‘Cloud Developer Interfaces and Cloud Orchestration’ Enterprise Cloud Engineering team.In this Senior Engineer role, you will be part of a highly talented team responsible for building scalable, secure, and highly available Cloud based Services within our Hybrid based platform-as-a-service (PaaS), while also gaining experience and getting exposure to many other open-source products as required.Your primary responsibilities will be to develop technical solutions to enhance the American Express Hybrid Multi Cloud platform, with a focus on building automation for highly scalable cloud services delivery.
Collaborate with the rest of the API/Orchestration engineering team, the UI engineering team, quality engineering tam and product management to build scalable high performant quality API and Orchestration solutions.
Research and apply recent technology and libraries that enable lean product development focusing on Chaos engineering
Implement API/Middleware solutions which integrates with NSQL, platforms, Kubernetes and public cloud systems
Protect APIs with security integrations like – Okta, SSO, mTLS, HashiCorp Vault etc.
Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, unit testing, and code review.
Willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software Qualifications:
Preferably a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
7 years of experience in developing REST APIs using Google’s GoLang and/or Java.
Deep understanding of REST principle and deep understanding of Chaos engineering.
Strong experience with any NSQL databases (CouchBase and ETCD is preferable)
Deep understanding of security integrations – Okta, mTLS, SSO, HashiCorp Vault etc.
Deep understanding of API Gateways and their functions.
Experience with any of the Container and cloud Orchestration technologies – Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform etc.
Deep understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – GitHub/Actions, Docker, Jenkins,
Good understanding of Infrastructure fundamentals like DNS, F5, Certificates, Containers, monitoring tools, Logging analytic tools, Firewalls & Security policies
Successful track record of developing middleware solutions, with a strong focus on code quality, unit testing, integration testing, code quality analysis tools and API (Swagger) documentation.
Familiar with agile application development methods. Understanding of QE processes in general.
Qualifications
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
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, onsite or virtual 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.
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 either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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Job: Technology
Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24012851
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