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Director- Database Engineering – Distributed SQL, MySQL and Graph DB

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At a Glance

Location
Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States
Employment
Full-time
Experience
8–10 years
Compensation
ry range for this position is $176,400 to $282,500 USD per year, which may inclu
Posted
2026-03-31T22:14:14.822Z

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSAzureGCPLinuxSQL

Domain Knowledge

  • Automation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Energy
  • Engineering

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be

Requirements

10 years of experience in database engineering and architecture with 5 years of experience in leadership roles

Strong understanding of RDBMS, NoSQL and Distributed SQL database concepts and Architecture

Strong understanding of various data models e.g.

Strong understanding of database physical and logical replications and various high availability solutions

Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure and Infrastructure as code (IAC)

UNIX-Linux platform skills and understanding of operating system, network, storage and security

Compensation & Benefits

Work Hours:

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements:

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/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.

Responsibilities

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.

We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.

While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

As Director in Database Engineering team, you will be leading a highly talented team of Database Engineers specializing in MySQL, Distributed SQL and Graph DB database technologies.

Database Engineering team is part of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) group under Operations and Infrastructure (OI) division, which delivers operationally excellent open system database infrastructure and services both on premise (private cloud) and in public cloud.

We design, engineer and build reliable, scalable, secure, highly available and cost-effective database infrastructure solutions for our product development partners.

About the Company

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 — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.