Senior Software Engineer II

American Express

. Design and build end-to-end enterprise CRM capabilities spanning Salesforce, GCP, APIs, and enterprise data platforms .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $123,000 - $215,250 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building enterprise CRM capabilities using Salesforce and GCP, with a strong focus on data architecture, security, and integration. Proficient in developing scalable solutions, data pipelines, and APIs while ensuring data quality and governance.

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Salesforce Data ArchitectureGCP Data EngineeringAPI DevelopmentData GovernanceEvent-Driven Architectures

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Hard Skills

ApexJavaPythonSQLETL/ELTData ModelingData QualityData IntegrationInfrastructure as CodeAutomated Testing

Soft Skills

Problem-SolvingCommunicationCoachingMentoring

Tools & Technologies

BigQueryPub/SubKafkaCloud StorageDataflowApache BeamCloud ComposerGitCI/CDDevSecOps

Industry Keywords

SaaSCRMCloudData GovernanceDistributed SystemsData as a ProductData SecurityIntegration PatternsHigh-Volume Data ProcessingData Virtualization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowApacheBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaPythonSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build end-to-end enterprise CRM capabilities spanning Salesforce, GCP, APIs, and enterprise data platforms
Develop scalable solutions on Salesforce using data architecture, Apex, APIs, integration patterns, platform capabilities, and SaaS application development
Engineer high-volume data pipelines and processing capabilities on GCP
Design data connectivity between Salesforce and enterprise data ecosystems using APIs, events, streaming, CDC, batch integration, federation, and virtualization
Own data modeling and management across Salesforce and GCP, including data quality, metadata, lineage, lifecycle management, reconciliation, and governance
Design data security and accessibility across Salesforce and GCP, including access models, IAM, authentication/authorization, encryption, tokenization, masking, and least-privilege access
Build data virtualization and federation patterns for CRM experiences
Design and build secure, reliable APIs and integration services with contracts, documentation, versioning, lifecycle management, authentication/authorization, and governance
Build event-driven architectures using Salesforce Platform Events/CDC, Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar technologies
Engineer reliability and observability across Salesforce, APIs, events, and data pipelines
Create trusted, reusable, discoverable data products and services with clear ownership, contracts, quality standards, security, and service expectations
Optimize solutions for scale, performance, reliability, and cost
Apply automated testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, and production-readiness practices
Provide hands-on technical leadership and partner with product, architecture, data, and engineering teams
Coach and mentor others

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale SaaS, CRM, cloud, data, and/or distributed systems
Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce as an enterprise SaaS CRM platform, including Salesforce data architecture, Apex, APIs, integration patterns, security, sharing, permissions, and large-volume data considerations
Strong hands-on experience with GCP data engineering, including BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Dataproc/Spark, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Cloud Storage, or comparable cloud data technologies
Proficiency in Java, Python, SQL, and Apex
Experience building production-quality services, APIs, applications, and data pipelines
Deep experience with data engineering and distributed processing, including ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, orchestration, high-volume computation, transformation, data quality, and analytics
Strong understanding of data architecture and modeling across transactional CRM and analytical platforms
Strong knowledge of Salesforce and cloud data security, including access controls, sharing models, IAM, authentication/authorization, encryption, tokenization, masking, secrets management, and sensitive-data protection
Experience designing data integration, federation, and virtualization architectures
Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and enterprise integration services, including API contracts, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, security, versioning, reliability, and lifecycle management
Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging, Pub/Sub, streaming, CDC, Salesforce Platform Events, Kafka, or comparable technologies
Strong understanding of distributed-system reliability and observability, including SLIs/SLOs, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, retries, idempotency, rate limiting, and failure recovery
Experience with data governance and Data as a Product practices, including data contracts, ownership, metadata, lineage, quality, discoverability, and reusable data services
Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code
Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with ability to work across CRM, application, data, cloud, security, and product teams
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required; visa sponsorship will not be pursued
Bachelor's Degree

Benefits

Comp & perks

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