Sr. ML Engineer (3 - 5 years of experience with Golang, Kafka, Distributed System, ML Ops)

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

About the Role:

Visa AI as a Service (VAIaS) operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure their ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud-native platforms, VAIaS automates the updates to data, models, and applications. Combined with strong AI governance, VAIaS optimizes the performance, scalability, interpretability and reliability of AI models and services. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Visa AI as a Service is an ideal place for you!

This role is for a Senior ML Engineer to join the AI Hyperscale platform team. The primary focus will be on developing new capabilities for model validation, working closely with model teams, conducting load testing, and implementing chaos engineering to ensure system reliability and high availability. The candidate must have strong development experience. The objective is to create new AI as a Service capability while enhancing our code base and development processes. As a dedicated developer in an Agile Scrum team, you will demonstrate technical leadership, problem-solving, coding, testing, and debugging skills. A commitment to addressing the product backlog and delivering production-ready code is essential, as is the ability to manage various tasks.

You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes investigating new requirements and design and at times refactoring existing functionality for performance and maintainability but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our end customers. The role is for a self-organized individual with knowledge of web application and web service development. The candidate will perform hands-on activities including design, documentation, development and test of new functionality. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data-driven business solutions

  
  

• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision and comply with all applicable standards

  
  

• Responsibilities span all phases of solution development including:

  
  

• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved

  
  

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

  
  

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience.
• Must have:
• Experience working on distributed microservices systems.
• Development experience with Golang (alternatively a strong background in C/C++, Java, Rust)
• Experience in real-time streaming systems (Spark / Flink / Kafka)
• Familiarity with DB
• Distributed systems

• Preferred:
• Exposure to Stress testing + Chaos Eng tools
• Exposure to ML concepts/models 
• Skilled with Docker & Kubernetes and hands on Ansible / CI CD pipelines
• Experience using and configuring operational tools such as Splunk, Humio, Prometheus & Grafana
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Big Data Hadoop, J2EE and Spark with large data volumes and transaction systems
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits / drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Ability to solve complex software development / design issues
• Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way
• Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
• Past experience in Payments knowledge is preferred

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.