Senior Data Platform Engineer — Hybrid, Scalable Pipelines

Visa; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a senior data platform engineer to design and evolve scalable data services, pipelines, and monitoring in a hybrid environment. You will own reliability, cost efficiency, and performance for large-scale workloads, collaborating with partner teams and internal customers.

Required skills include Golang or Python, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and a strong background with distributed systems, streaming processing, and observability tooling. Three days in office are expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years with an Advanced Degree or 11+ years with a PhD
• Cloud computing skills (Azure/AWS) and hybrid designs
• Proficiency in Golang or Python
• 9+ years with Bachelor Degree or 7+ years with Advanced Degree or 3+ years with PhD
• 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.

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

Skills

Golang

Python

Cloud platforms

SQL

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree (MS/MBA/JD/etc)

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

CodeFresh

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Visa is seeking a senior data platform engineer to design and evolve scalable data services, pipelines, and monitoring in a hybrid environment. You will own reliability, cost efficiency, and performance for large-scale workloads, collaborating with partner teams and internal customers.

Required skills include Golang or Python, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and a strong background with distributed systems, streaming processing, and observability tooling. Three days in office are expected.