Company Description

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.

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Job Description

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

• Design and implement large-scale data and analytical platform services leveraging database, open source, and cloud technologies.
• Understand business requirements and data assets andleverage appropriate MPP query processing technologies to solve the business use case.
• Establish metrics and analytics for monitoring and understanding of the user experiences andoperational status of the data store and analytical platform.
• Identify platform challenges and design for resilience improvements and implement measures for resilience, self-healing, and recoverability of the platform.
• Perform troubleshooting, analysis, and performance tuning for customers using the data warehouse, SQL engine, and data analytical platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis, including implementation of hardened measures that avoid and/or mitigate impact to users in case of similar or related issues.
• Build self-service capabilities in the platform to help users provision, use and analyse data in a self-served manner.
• Build analytical platform services like Data Mart Builder as a Service, Graph and Spatial Analytics as a Service, Cloud SQL Warehouse and others which provide analytical capabilities over large data sets to users in Visa.
• Actively participate in all phases of software development lifecycle: analysis, technical design, planning, development, testing/CICD, release, post production/escalation support.
• Apply the appropriate software engineering patterns to build highly scalable, available and resilient multi-tenant Platforms that can host large scale and highly critical applications.
• Take ownership of Platform and drive it to the next level of effectiveness to support current and long-term requirements.
• Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities.
• Position reports to the Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 10 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
• Position requires experience in the following:
• Query Performance Tuning and Optimization
• Linux and Windows Operating Systems
• Linux Shell Scripting
• DB2 LUW Database Implementation
• DB2 Database Partitioning Feature on Linux
• IBM Data Server Manager and IBM Database Management Console

Additional Information

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 $215,197.00 USD to $231,400.00 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 an annual bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Program, FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time off and Wellness Programs.