Data Engineer - Sr. Consultant level

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.

Company Description

Pismo is a technology company founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, providing a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing, and financial market infrastructure. Pismo joined Visa in 2024 and leverages Visa's solutions to help customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo's cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while maintaining high security and availability standards. Pismo's 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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
• Proficiency in Golang or Python
• Cloud computing skills (preferably Azure/AWS) and hybrid designs
• 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
• Clear communication, adaptability, self-management, critical thinking, collaboration

Pay & Benefits

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 offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.