Senior Software Engineer
Visa · Posted Oct 9
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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About the role
Visa’s Observability Engineering team builds and operates enterprise-scale monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms that support Visa’s global payments ecosystem, with an emphasis on reliability, security, resiliency, performance, and operational excellence. The team works on cloud-native, highly available distributed systems spanning hybrid and cloud environments. This hands-on Senior Software Engineer role designs and delivers scalable observability solutions and automation, builds platform services and APIs using Python, Golang, or Java, and partners with application and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and production readiness across Visa’s technology environment.
What you will do
- Develop, and maintain scalable solutions for monitoring, logging, and tracing across Visa’s hybrid and cloud environments.
- Build platform services, automation, APIs, and self-service capabilities using languages such as Python, Golang, or Java.
- Contribute to observability architecture, engineering standards, and practical patterns that improve reliability and developer productivity.
- Support large-scale deployments, platform modernization, and continuous improvement across enterprise observability platforms.
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams to advance instrumentation, telemetry adoption, and production readiness for critical Visa services.
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices to improve platform reliability, repeatability, and efficiency.
- Participate in root cause analysis, performance optimization, capacity planning, and resiliency improvements for production platforms.
- Collaborate through design discussions, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship within observability and platform engineering initiatives.
- Build pragmatic, reliable solutions that improve the experience of application and platform teams.
- Take ownership of complex engineering problems while collaborating openly with teammates and partner teams.
- Contribute to platforms that operate at enterprise scale with high expectations for availability, security, and resiliency.
- Influence technical direction through clear communication, practical standards, and credible engineering contributions.
- Help advance automation, platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence across a global technology environment.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred 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)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience developing production software using any one of the programming languages Golang/Python/Java
- Experience designing, building, or operating distributed systems or platform services.
- Understanding of system architecture, reliability, performance, security, and automation principles.
- Experience working collaboratively across engineering teams and communicating technical concepts clearly.
- Analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to learn new technologies and apply them to complex engineering problems.
- Ability to adapt to next technology stack that is needed per project priorities.
- Experience with observability concepts across metrics, logs, and traces.
- Familiarity with one or more technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Elastic/OpenSearch, Splunk, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or modern container platforms.
- Familiarity with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Ansible, GitOps, or CI/CD automation.
- Experience operating or scaling platforms in AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid environments.
- Experience contributing to architecture decisions, engineering standards, or platform modernization initiatives.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Visa
Visa Inc. is a multinational payment card services corporation that facilitates electronic funds transfers worldwide. The company empowers global commerce through its secure digital payment network, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 34100 employees
- Founded
- 1958-09-18
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $17.9B raised
- 2008-03-19IPO$17.9B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Group President, Global Markets
Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer
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