Data Engineer - Sr. Consultant level

Description

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.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 10-31-2026

Company Description

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa’s solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo’s cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo’s 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the data platform, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability
• Implement and optimize high-performance data services and pipelines (batch and streaming) for large-scale workloads
• Support production operations for file- and event-based systems: monitoring, incident response (on-call), and continuous improvement to meet SLAs
• Participate in code and design reviews, promoting best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to deliver end-to-end data products
• Help reduce technical debt and simplify systems with clean interfaces and consistent patterns
• This is a Hybrid position.
• &xa;Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
• Cloud computing skills (preferably Azure/AWS) and hybrid designs
• Proficiency in Golang or Python
• Preferred Qualifications
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• What we are looking for:
• Strong software engineering background building distributed systems at scale
• Experience with modern streaming processing
• 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.
• Information for US Applicants
• For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $152,200.00 to $243,700.00 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.
• 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