[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform @Visa

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be a core technical contributor on our real-time event processing platform. You'll design and build event-driven services, drive engineering quality, and mentor junior engineers — all while working with limited supervision on complex problems. This is the first truly senior individual contributor level, and we expect you to bring strong technical judgment, ownership, and a bias for quality.

• Design and build event processing services and pipelines on AWS serverless (Lambda, Kinesis, EventBridge, Step Functions).
• Write production-quality Golang and/or Python code with comprehensive testing and observability.
• Own services end-to-end: development, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and SLA adherence.
• Make sound architectural decisions for somewhat complex problems, exercising discretion and judgment.
• Drive code quality through thorough code reviews, testing standards, and documentation.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents independently; contribute to postmortem analysis.
• Design and implement CI/CD improvements for better developer experience and deployment safety.
• Mentor Analyst-level engineers through pairing, design guidance, and constructive review feedback.
• Propose and implement improvements to platform resilience, performance, or cost.
• Participate in on-call rotations independently with full accountability.

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

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong software engineering background building distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Golang and/or Python.
• Experience with modern streaming processing (Kinesis, Flink, Spark).
• Cloud computing skills (preferably AWS) and hybrid designs.
• 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.
• English: B2 or above.

Company Description

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa’s solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo’s cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo’s 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.