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Kabbage, an American Express Company, is setting a new standard in big data and FinTech and we are looking for a Data Engineer-(Kabbage) to help us in our mission to help small businesses be mighty.

Acquired by American Express in 2020, Kabbage is a leading FinTech company changing the way small businesses manage their cash flow. Applying automation and real-time data, Kabbage provides small businesses a suite of integrated cash-flow technologies from flexible lines of credit, digital business checking accounts, fast payments and predictive business analytics. Now with the powerful backing of American Express, Kabbage can offer millions of small businesses the opportunity to access digital tools to help them grow bigger, lasting companies. While we've received numerous awards and recognition—such as Entrepreneur's Top Company Cultures, Inc Magazine's Top Private Companies, GlassDoor’s Best Places to Work, and Forbes FinTech 50—it is our people, our culture, and our leaders that make Kabbage such a great place to work.

At Kabbage, we strive to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay, and do their best work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected in our people, our partners, and our customers. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague shares in the company’s success.

Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And, we’ll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex 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 of #TeamAmex.

As part of the Kabbage American Express Database Operations team, you are working to keep our databases resilient, scalable, and secure.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Delivering solutions for optimum availability, reliability, and scalability of our database infrastructure using automation.
• Meet stakeholder SLAs/SLOs for all solutions delivered.
• Integrate with other technology teams to build world class solutions.
• Maintain and enhance comprehensive Operational Visibility that alerts and informs the right people at the right time of potential issues.
• Protect valuable and sensitive data by working with Security Operations to detect, audit, and remediate security concerns.
• Write, review, and release code according to standards.
• Participate in scheduled on-call rotations, incident response, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing with the team.
• Increase efficiency by automating routine tasks.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience and proven track record and knowledge of building, managing, and troubleshooting database solutions like SQL Server 2019 and open source (PostgreSQL or MySQL) in the cloud (RDS, EC2) or On-prem.
• Experience working as a reliability engineer, software engineer, or systems engineer with an emphasis in data.
• Experience in building, maintaining, and improving data solutions in a cloud environment (preferably AWS)
• Proficient with coding and scripting solutions on platforms like AWS, Windows, Linux (PowerShell Core, Python, C#, T-SQL, AWS CLI)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with orchestration technologies (SSIS, Airflow, Bamboo) is a plus.
• Familiarity with the following is a plus:
  • DataDog
  • Splunk
  • SQLSentry
  • Terraform

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.

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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Non-considerations for sponsorship:

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

Considerations for sponsorship:

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.