Staff Data Engineer- GenAI

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.

The Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform group is a key component of Visa's Technology organization that provides the enabling technology and processes to handle Visa's data assets and deliver valuable information, products, and services to customers. Our team delivers secure, high-quality, and easy-to-use Visa core data assets as a service, together with reliable and scalable data platform as a service, to enable Visa and our partners to rapidly and efficiently innovate data-driven business products and services to lead the digital payment industry. Our application development is on the cutting edge of technology. We are innovative leaders within our industry!

Our platform operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, the platform automates the updates to data, models, and applications.

What We Offer:

• Exciting Challenges: We work at scale solving hard problems across the entire stack. We offer limitless opportunity to learn, leverage and lead in this ever-growing field.
• Teamwork and Fun: Each of us brings diverse and rich experiences to the team, enabling us to deliver much more and have fun at the same time.
• Fantastic people: With strong leadership, you will have the opportunity to learn, collaborate and deliver together with some of the best and most creative minds in the industry.

Essential Functions:

• As a Staff Engineer, you will assist in conducting aggregations with consideration to metadata management, GenAI use cases, contribute towards building taxonomy dependencies, and availability across products. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to both strategic and tactic planning and execution to continuously advance the platform's vision and mission. You will build tools and complex automation processes that assist in transforming, managing, accessing, deploying, and monitoring data in real time.
• Experience in continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• Participating in negotiations with product and business owners to determine feasibility of technical design and confirm what is needed for the roadmap to be successful.
• Working with senior team leads, working on the technical roadmaps, working with development managers and teams to identify and resolve technical challenges, and working with different products and data science teams to streamline the feature request and model onboarding.
• Collaborating with other teams (e.g., Product owners, business partners) to identify and clarify business requirements and determine business needs.
• This role requires you to be hands-on coding at least 70%+ of the time in your preferred coding language - open to Java, Python, Spark, Golang. 

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.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar field OR 4 years of experience with a master’s degree in computer science or similar field OR 3 years of experience with a PhD in Computer Science or similar field
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, with experience implementing and supporting real-time systems.
• Expert with web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Experience in an Agile environment with good software development practices such as CI/CD, code reviews and test automation.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases like MySQL, DB2, Redis and Cassandra.
• Expert in developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
• Expert with Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Flink and MapReduce
• Strong experience with distributed caching technologies like Redis

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

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 155,300.00 to 225,300.00 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.