Staff Data Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff Data Engineer (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Create and tune complex SQL for views across federated sources including Hadoop, DB2 and Oracle.
• Collaborate with product management / product owners on defining user experience, demos and training.
• Collaborate with BI report developers on design for optimal performance.
• Assist on data analytics projects involving data modeling and architecture.
• Assist on building integration with other data / metadata tools in the architecture.
• Assist on some database administration tasks for the data virtualization platform.
• Use business requirements to document clear and concise technical designs.
• Maintain design and naming standards.
• Contribute to project planning discussions, provide status updates for development progress and be a critical resource for issue resolution.
• Position reports to the Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a Data Engineer – related occupation.
• Experience can be gained through academic coursework and/or work experience.
• Position requires experience in the following:
  1. Object oriented programming in Java, Golang, Python or similar;
  2. Procedural programming in Shell, C or similar;
  3. Understanding of network protocol such as TCP/IP, ICMP, PRP, HSR, LLDP, and CIP;
  4. Distributed systems;
  5. Cloud Infrastructure;
  6. Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience; and
  7. Relational and nonrelational databases.
  8. Spark-Scala, Kafka, Hadoop
  9. Angular 11, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn
  10. Splunk, Swagger
  11. Tableau, Google Analytics
  12. GenAI (LLM, NLP, Prompt Engineering)
  13. MySQL, MongoDB

Worksite: Foster City, CA

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Travel Requirements:  This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $146,200.00 to $233,700.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.