Associate Data Engineer

Visa Technology and Operations LLC; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k)

FSA/HSA

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Bonus and equity

Job summary

Visa Technology and Operations LLC is seeking an Associate Data Engineer in Foster City, CA to build and sustain reliable data pipelines and processing jobs. You will work hands-on with code and data, participate in code reviews, and support pipeline health in an onsite role.

You will translate requirements into component designs, develop code, run unit tests, and help automate data workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams to address security, privacy, and data retention needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience gathering requirements through stakeholder meetings.
• Experience interpreting technical requirements and executing component designs.
• Experience creating and implementing code across assigned components.
• Experience participating in code review processes and applying feedback.
• Experience performing unit testing and supporting code testing in a shared environment.
• Experience developing tools and automation processes for data management.
• Experience collaborating with teammates to extract, compile, and transform data.
• Experience reviewing and escalating alerts to maintain data pipelines.
• Experience troubleshooting basic data pipeline issues.

Responsibilities

• Join stakeholder meetings to learn requirements and understand the data ecosystem.
• Translate technical requirements into component-level designs.
• Develop and implement code for assigned components following patterns and guidelines.
• Participate in code reviews and apply feedback.
• Run unit tests and support testing for a component.
• Help build tools and automation for transforming and managing data workflows.
• Work with teammates to create queries, extract and transform data.
• Review alerts to maintain data pipeline stability and investigate issues.
• Troubleshoot basic issues and escalate complex problems as needed.

Skills

Stakeholder meetings

Requirements gathering

Code review

Unit testing

Data pipelines

Data extraction & transformation

Troubleshooting data pipelines

Collaboration

Generative AI tools familiarity

Security/privacy awareness

Coding patterns/best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree

3+ years of relevant work experience

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Visa Technology and Operations LLC is looking for an Associate Data Engineer to help build and sustain reliable data pipelines and processing jobs. In this onsite role in Foster City, CA, you will work hands‑on with code and data while partnering with cross‑functional teams to turn business requirements into secure, scalable, high‑quality solutions. The position involves regular collaboration, participation in engineering practices like code review and unit testing, and day‑to‑day support for pipeline health.

What you will do

• Join stakeholder meetings to learn requirements and understand the data ecosystem along with security, privacy, and retention needs.
• Translate technical requirements into component‑level designs provided by senior engineers.
• Develop and implement code for assigned components by following coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, collect feedback, and apply updates to your owned code or design aspects.
• Run unit tests and support testing for one component within a common testing environment.
• Help build tools and automation processes for transforming, managing, accessing, deploying, and monitoring data workflows.
• Work with teammates to create queries, extract and compile raw data, and apply basic modifications to transform it.
• Review and elevate alerts to help maintain data pipeline stability, assist investigations, and implement basic fixes to reduce failures.
• Troubleshoot basic issues identified by testing guidance, address and fix them, and elevate more complex problems as needed.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree OR 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience gathering requirements through stakeholder meetings.
• Experience interpreting technical requirements and executing component designs.
• Experience creating and implementing code across assigned components.
• Experience participating in code review processes and applying feedback.
• Experience performing unit testing and supporting code testing in a shared/common environment.
• Experience developing tools and automation processes for data management.
• Experience collaborating with teammates to extract, compile, and transform data.
• Experience reviewing and escalating alerts to maintain data pipelines.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving basic data pipeline issues.
• Experience contributing to innovation by applying knowledge of market trends and industry dynamics.
• Experience applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Experience using tools to investigate vulnerabilities in software code.
• Experience collaborating with teammates to merge data into distributed systems, products, or tools.
• Digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (for example, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot).

Location, schedule, and travel

• Location: Foster City, CA (onsite)
• Work arrangement: Requires at least 3 days in office; expectations for those days will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
• Work hours: Varies based on department needs.
• Travel: 5-10% of the time.

Compensation and benefits

• Salary: USD 101,800 - 158,100 per year
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Bonus and equity (may be eligible)

Additional information

• This role is performed in an office setting and requires the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk.
• Communication is required in person and by telephone, and you will frequently use standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.
• For U.S. applicants, the estimated salary range is described as $101.800,00 to $158.100,00 USD per year and may include potential sales incentive payments.
• Salary may vary depending on job‑related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location; the position may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Visa is an EEO employer and provides consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Visa also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.