Staff Software Engineer - One Data Platform Engineering
American ExpressBase Salary
$144k - $256k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, release, and evolve foundational platform services, frameworks, reusable components, SDKs, APIs, libraries, and cloud services.
- Build and improve developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code capabilities, and internal platform experiences.
- Lead high-level architecture and detailed technical design, conduct design reviews, and establish engineering standards across teams.
- Optimize platform capabilities for performance, scalability, reliability, observability, resiliency, serverless, and cloud-native environments.
- Support event-driven, data-centric, distributed, and AI-enabled enterprise applications.
- Collaborate across engineering organizations to define platform standards, architectural guidance, and technical direction.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while resolving complex and ambiguous engineering challenges.
- Drive initiatives from concept through delivery and advocate for developer experience, customer-focused solutions, and business value.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience in complex enterprise environments, including platform, framework, or foundational-service development.
- Deep expertise in scalable, high-performance distributed systems and developer platforms.
- Experience designing reusable frameworks, SDKs, APIs, shared engineering services, data pipelines, and stream-processing systems.
- Hands-on backend experience with Node.js, Java, or similar technologies; distributed systems; SQL/NoSQL databases; and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience designing and deploying applications on Function as a Service platforms such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
- Understanding of serverless architecture, cloud-native application design, observability, resiliency, and platform scalability.
- Knowledge of AI application architectures and concepts including LLMs, RAG, agentic applications, tool calling, AI orchestration, MCP, and A2A.
- Proven contributions to enterprise platforms, core frameworks, SDKs, libraries, or open-source projects, including expertise in their architecture and internals.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, strategic thinking, ownership, communication, consensus building, and ability to lead through ambiguity.
- Preferred qualifications include internal developer platform experience, AI-powered application or platform experience, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Python, WebAssembly, Wasmtime, WASI, Spin, Fermyon, WasmCloud, Bytecode Alliance projects, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, CloudFormation, and GraphQL.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries.
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules, including hybrid and virtual options through Amex Flex.
- Access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling support through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
- Depending on role and business needs, work may be onsite, hybrid, or fully virtual.
About American Express
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day. These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more. For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together. Learn more about us at: https://www.americanexpress.com/careers https://www.americanexpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AmericanExpressUS https://www.instagram.com/americanexpress/ https://twitter.com/americanexpress https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanExpress See our community guidelines at: https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/community-guidelines/ If you have a customer service issue or question, please visit www.americanexpress.com/contactus