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Sr. Data Engineer

Visa

Bellevue, WA
Full Time
Senior
117k-165k
22 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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. Join us today and experience Life at Visa. Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world's most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of people. The role involves working on complex distributed systems, tackling massive scale problems related to new payment flows, data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms. We are seeking a versatile, curious, and energetic Senior Data Engineer to join our team of passionate engineers, focusing on data engineering and machine learning innovation at a global scale.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, high-performance data pipelines for both structured and unstructured data.
  • Build and maintain internal APIs and data services to securely expose and serve data and ML model outputs.
  • Champion best practices in data quality, governance, observability, and performance optimization.
  • Develop, train, and fine-tune AI/ML models for business use cases such as classification, recommendation, NLP, and computer vision.
  • Build and optimize LLM-based applications using prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Drive model evaluation, experimentation, A/B testing, and continuous learning pipelines.
  • Enable Agentic AI systems by building infrastructure that supports autonomous workflows, orchestration, and decision-making loops.
  • Collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and software engineers to integrate intelligent systems into scalable production environments.

Requirements

  • 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).
  • 2+ years of experience building and pushing code into production.
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience solving data problems using data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, RDBMS).
  • 2+ years of experience training and deploying Machine Learning models into production.
  • Strong software engineering background with experience in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Mistral), vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone), and orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Autogen).
  • Experience building AI applications on top of enterprise-scale data systems.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with building and deploying AI applications at enterprise scale.
  • Knowledge of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Qualifications

  • Educational background with a Bachelor's Degree or higher (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD).

Benefits & Perks

  • Salary range of $116,500 to $164,500 USD per year, potentially including sales incentives.
  • Bonus and equity eligibility.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Working at Visa

Visa is an EEO Employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. The company values a collaborative, innovative, and purpose-driven work environment.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 15, 2025
Job CategoryData Engineering
Salary117k-165k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceSenior

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About Visa

Website

usa.visa.com

Location

Bellevue, WA

Industry

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities

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