Data Engineer

Visa is hiring a Data Engineer in IN - Bengaluru.

Requirements

• 1 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or an Advanced Degree such as a Master's, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD.

• Hands-on software development experience in Java, Scala, Python, or comparable backend/platform engineering languages.

• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, databases, APIs, operating systems, networking, and concurrency.

• Experience building or supporting backend services, data services, distributed systems, APIs, automation, or platform engineering capabilities.

• Understanding of software engineering practices including unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD, code reviews, secure coding, documentation, and production support.

• Practical exposure to generative AI or LLM-assisted development, including prompt usage, code assistance, test generation, documentation, or engineering productivity use cases.

Preferred qualifications

• 1 or more years of software engineering experience in data platform, distributed systems, backend services, streaming, workflow orchestration, or developer platform domains.
• Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Temporal, distributed key-value stores, data pipelines, metadata services, or secure data access patterns.
• Experience designing scalable and resilient services with clear APIs, strong observability, automated tests, and production readiness controls.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data stores, data modeling, schema evolution, event-driven architectures, and large-scale data processing patterns.
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring tools, and service reliability practices.
• Practical understanding of LLM concepts such as tokens, context windows, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, tool/function calling, evaluation, hallucination risk, and guardrails.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI development patterns, including coding agents, workflow agents, prompt templates, context engineering, model evaluation, AI-assisted test generation, and human approval checkpoints.
• Ability to create high-quality development prompts and context packages that help AI tools understand requirements, architecture, coding standards, APIs, test expectations, and operational constraints.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve engineering productivity while maintaining security, privacy, compliance, code quality, and engineering accountability.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across application code, platform services, runtime behavior, dependency failures, performance bottlenecks, and distributed system issues.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly, document designs, collaborate across teams, and influence engineering practice

About Visa

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – t