Senior AI Platform Engineer - Agentic AI & Governance

American Express; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is building foundational agentic AI platform capabilities for the enterprise. This onsite Sunrise, FL role designs core platform engineering for reliable, governed, observable agents across AI ecosystems.

Responsibilities include scalable runtime infrastructure, a unified control plane, and enterprise governance with strong emphasis on security, telemetry, and production readiness. Bachelor’s degree required and proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud-native stacks is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Strong software engineering experience building production systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong CI/CD, observability, and security fundamentals.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous technical problems and translate into reliable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of the Agentic AI Platform across Agent Runtime & Execution.
• Design and build scalable agent runtime infrastructure using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Develop runtime abstractions enabling agents to run in sandboxed environments and third‑party AI platforms.
• Build capabilities for agent orchestration, tool execution, state management, memory, and multi‑agent workflows.
• Create a unified control plane to manage agents across heterogeneous environments and providers.
• Develop APIs for registration, configuration, deployment, versioning, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement.
• Implement enterprise governance controls for identity, authentication, authorization, and data boundaries.
• Create registries and catalogs for discovery of agents, tools, skills, prompts, and knowledge sources.
• Develop telemetry for agent execution, including traces, events, and cost signals.
• Support secure, auditable, and compliant production deployments with GitOps and IaC patterns.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

Kubernetes

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

OpenAI Agents SDK

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Google ADK

Model Context Protocol

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

American Express is building foundational agentic AI platform capabilities for the enterprise. This onsite Sunrise, FL role designs core platform engineering for reliable, governed, observable agents across AI ecosystems.

Responsibilities include scalable runtime infrastructure, a unified control plane, and enterprise governance with strong emphasis on security, telemetry, and production readiness. Bachelor’s degree required and proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud-native stacks is essential.