Senior Cassandra Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Tink was founded in 2012, and a decade later became part of Visa in 2022. Tink was created with the aim of changing the banking industry for the better. We have built Europe’s most robust open banking platform – with the broadest, deepest connectivity and powerful services that create value out of the financial data. We offer the tools that allow anyone – from big banks and fintechs to startups – to build the future of financial services across Europe.

Perhaps the most dramatic outcome of the digital revolution is the amount of data that is now collected and analyzed. Tink handles billions of events, and this number is increasing at an exponential rate. We are passionate about enabling data-driven decisions for our clients and internal stakeholders. Our goal is to ensure data is collected, transformed, and presented securely with accuracy and reliability. Building the infrastructure and services to support this is hence a key part of what Tink engineers are doing.

What we are looking for:

We are currently seeking a talented individual to join the Stateful team. Working from our office in Stockholm and help us maintain, expand and evolve our Cassandra database offering.

The Stateful team is the backbone of our data infrastructure and tooling. Playing a vital role in delivering essential database services and developing tools to meet the evolving needs of the Tink organization. We are actively expanding our team, seeking talented Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and DevOps engineers who can bring their expertise to drive our database services to new heights.

What we offer you:

A position in the Stateful team means working in an international environment where you will be involved in:

• Ensuring scalability and reliability of our most critical operational data store. Primarily Cassandra.

• Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure that the database services and tools align with their evolving requirements and use cases.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification
●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.
●Proven experience in managing Cassandra databases at scale.
●A strong desire to foster teamwork and collaborative efforts.
●Working in an IaC environment using tooling such as Terraform, or Ansible
●Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

Preferred Qualification
●6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years
of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or
up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
●Familiarity with AWS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Zookeeper, and Kafka
●Extensive industry experience, including mentoring of junior engineers.

Additional Information

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.