Staff Data Engineer

Description

Summary: Lead the design and evolution of Visa's data platform, optimizing high-performance data services and pipelines, and mentoring engineers. Highlights: 1. Lead design and evolution of the data platform 2. Build and optimize high-performance data services and pipelines 3. Mentor engineers and raise the bar for testing, security, and observability **About Us** Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. **Job Description** * Lead the design and evolution of our data platform from architecture to production with a focus on reliability, cost, and scale * Drive decisions on data stack and platform standards across teams * Build and optimize high\-performance data services and pipelines (batch and streaming) for large\-scale workloads * Own production operations for file\- and event\-based systems: monitoring, incident response (on\-call), and continuous improvement to meet SLAs * Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands\-on pairing. raise the bar for testing, security, and observability * Collaborate with partner teams and customers to deliver data products end to end * Reduce technical debt and simplify systems with clean interfaces and clear patterns This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.**Qualifications** Basic Qualifications: 5\+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8\+ years of relevant work experience. Preferred Qualifications: 5\+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8\+ years of relevant work experience. Strong software engineering background building distributed systems at scale Proficiency in Golang or Python Experience with modern streaming processing (Kinesis, Flink, Spark) Cloud computing skills (preferably AWS) and hybrid designs Data platform tooling: Terraform (IaC), Docker and Kubernetes (production) and Airflow (or similar orchestration) Observability and reliability mindset: Grafana, CloudWatch (logs, metrics, traces), on\-call participation, SLA awareness Strong SQL skills Version control and CI/CD: Git/GitHub, pipelines (e.g. Codefresh) or similar Soft skills: clear communication, adaptability, self\-management, critical thinking, collaboration English: B2 or above**Visa is an EEO Employer** Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.