Visa · 5 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
Foster City, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$123K/yr - $191K/yr
2+ years expVisa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions globally. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design, enhance, and build data infrastructure and pipelines within an agile development environment, collaborating with colleagues to deliver high-quality data solutions.
BankingFinanceFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobile PaymentsPayments
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
Design and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to map our data requirements into database structures
Ensure data services are highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient
Improve and support production systems, ensuring that production issues are promptly resolved
Collaborate with the agile team, user community, architects, and support teams to understand requirements and implement effective solutions
Drive innovation to differentiate our data products and accelerate time-to-market delivery
Represent the team in various technical forums and build deep partnerships with product management
Adhere to established software development guidelines, security standards and responsible use of Gen AI tools and frameworks
Help maintain atmosphere of mutual accountability
Qualification
Required
2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
Strong programming skills in at least two of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, Scala
Hands-on experience developing data processing pipeline, feature extraction, production deployment and monitoring
Expertise with Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Trino, Presto, Apache Airflow and NoSQL databases like Hbase working with PB level data volume
Hands on Experience in on-prem (Hadoop) and cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, DataBricks) and related data storage (HDFS, S3) and processing tools (Spark)
Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a strong team player
Should have key leadership behaviors like Positive attitude, Quick learner, Collaborative and Obsess with customer
Preferred
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
Experience utilizing GenAI technologies in software development
Experience with GenAI or Agentic AI technologies (e.g., LLMs, NLP) and RAG-based architecture and Vector DBs
Working experience in building solutions using MCP and A2A frameworks
Advanced proficiency and expertise in J2EE technologies, Microservices and REST APIs
Proven track record of building and deploying streaming and batch ETL pipelines using the latest Big Data technologies
Experience in an Agile environment, with a strong emphasis on best software development practices such as CI/CD, code reviews, and test automation, using tools like Jira and Jira Align
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401 (k)
FSA/HSA
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Wellness Program
Company
Visa
Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
TNB Financial Services
2016-09-10Post Ipo Equity
2008-03-19IPO
Leadership Team
Ryan McInerney
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Suh
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
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