COMPANY SUMMARY

As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

This position is for a Sr. Database Engineer in the PaaS (Platform as a Service) Data Tier team, who will help build and manage Visa’s data/database platforms on SQL/NoSQL technologies, as well as integration services. 

As an engineer/architect in this team, the individual will contribute to the design, architecture, solution engineering on the database area. The individual should be well versed in database architecture & engineering best practices, software development, automation. The individual will also be able to research new and existing DB technologies and evaluate the features or products to improve the availability, time-to-market, cost etc.

You'll need to have excellent communication and cross-group collaboration skills, be a self-starter, a quick learner of new technologies.

Essential Functions:

• Create and maintain database standards including - build, monitoring, backup and security standards for the various DB technologies including NoSQL and SQL.
• Conduct proof-of-concepts to evaluate different database technologies on both SQL and NoSQL in various areas including availability, scalability, security, manageability and performance.
• Create requirements document and automate recurring tasks to improve the agility and to minimize human errors.
• Integrate database monitoring metrics with solutions such as Prometheus 
• Test, validate and document database security best practices such as Technical Security Requirements and implementation procedures
• Define and implement high availability and continuous availability best practices and standards.
• Work closely with delivery, engineering, development and operations team to ensure database standards are followed and architecture patterns are aligned with the requirements

Basic Qualifications

• 2 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working with one or more of distributed data store technologies such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase. 
• At least one year hands on experience with software development, automation using any programming language.
• Experience conducting proof of concepts, performance bench marking using tools such as YCSB, Sysbench and experience running Jepsen tests.
• Experience automating database tasks, such as provisioning, patching, scaling.
• Experience working with Open Source community edition products such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra 
• Strong understanding of HA and continuous availability design principles and experience architect continuous availability solutions.
• Experience integrating with monitoring solution such as Prometheus
• Experience with database containerization is preferred. 
• Experience integrating with enterprise directory for database authentication is preferred
• Experience contributing to opensource technologies
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Good understanding of DBaaS and PaaS principles. 
• Good interpersonal skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.

Work Hours: 

• Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements:

• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.