Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Job Description

What you will do:

• Lead the design and evolution of our data platform from architecture to production with a focus on reliability, cost, and scale
• Drive decisions on data stack and platform standards across teams
• Build and optimize high-performance data services and pipelines (batch and streaming) for large-scale workloads
• Own production operations for file- and event-based systems: monitoring, incident response (on-call), and continuous improvement to meet SLAs
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands‑on pairing, raise the bar for testing, security, and observability
• Collaborate with partner teams and customers to deliver data products end to end
• Reduce technical debt and simplify systems with clean interfaces and clear patterns

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. #LI-Remote

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Strong software engineering background building distributed systems at scale
• Proficiency in Golang or Python
• Familiarity with modern streaming processing (Kinesis, Flink, Spark)
• Cloud computing skills (preferable AWS) and hybrid designs
• Data platform tooling: Terraform (IaC), Docker and Kubernetes (prod) and Airflow (or similar orchestration)
• Observability and SRE mindset: Grafana, CloudWatch (logs, metrics, traces), on‑call ownership, SLA thinking
• Strong SQL skills
• Versioning and CI/CD: Git GitHub, pipelines (e.g. Codefresh) or similar
• English: B2 level or above
• Be based in Brazil

Additional Information

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.