Python Developer

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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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Join the Database Engineering team in building the next generation of public and private cloud database platforms for American Express. 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 and Google? 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 in the private cloud environment as well as multiple public clouds.

 Responsibilities:

• Owns technical aspects of software development, focused on On-prem and Public Cloud Database Platform development and Support
• Performs hands-on architecture, design and development of systems
• Ability to understand systems architectures to quickly identify potential problems
• Assists in implementing solutions for database platform enablement
• Provides production support on rotation basis
• Sees opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

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

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of extensive development experience in programming in Python
• 2+ years of experience in developing terraform modules with various providers
• Experienced in system configuration using Ansible
• Linux and Database Administration Experience is a big plus.
• Hands on experience deploying various Public cloud services related to Network, Security, Compute and Database services
• Experience with Container and Orchestration Technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift is a plus.
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Willingness to learn new technologies and use them to their optimal potential

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

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 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

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.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.