Sr. SW Engineer (Python, Jenkins, Github, Devops, Change Management, 3-6 years)
Visa · Posted Oct 22
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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About the role
Visa is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. This role sits in the Platform Engineering organization, which focuses on application onboarding, deployment automation, production release support, platform modernization, operational excellence and engineering productivity across cloud-native environments. The engineer will work with development teams, SREs, architects and platform teams to enable secure, scalable and compliant deployments while driving automation and reducing operational friction.
What you will do
- Support onboarding of applications to the enterprise deployment platform.
- Assist development teams in adopting platform standards, deployment patterns, and operational best practices.
- Enable modernization initiatives including containerization and cloud-native deployments.
- Support production and non-production deployments across multiple applications and environments.
- Coordinate release activities, implementation plans, validation activities, and rollback procedures.
- Troubleshoot deployment issues and drive resolution during implementation windows.
- Develop automation scripts and tools to improve deployment efficiency and operational reliability.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipeline enhancements and deployment standardization initiatives.
- Automate repetitive operational processes and improve observability.
- Support Kafka, RabbitMQ, API Gateway, certificate management, and connectivity-related activities.
- Assist with provisioning, configuration validation, and operational troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to resolve platform dependencies.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities.
- Contribute to operational runbooks, deployment procedures, and knowledge management.
- Monitor application health and support production stability initiatives.
- Support vulnerability remediation and security-driven platform improvements.
- Ensure deployments and operational activities comply with organizational standards and controls.
- Participate in audit and compliance-related activities when required.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 4-7 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or production support experience.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Strong knowledge of Java-based applications and microservices architecture.
- Experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab, or similar).
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Knowledge of cloud-native deployment concepts.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Understanding of REST APIs and integration patterns.
- Knowledge of SQL databases and troubleshooting database-related issues.
- Experience with scripting using Shell, Python, or similar languages.
- Production support and incident management experience.
- Root cause analysis and troubleshooting skills.
- Release deployment and change management experience.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with enterprise payment platforms or financial services applications.
- Knowledge of observability tools and monitoring platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks.
- Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience supporting highly available and mission-critical applications.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and vulnerability remediation processes.
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
Recent coverage
Visa Newsroom
Visa Reports Strong Fiscal Year Financial Results and Record Payment Volumes2025-10-25
Business Wire
Visa Expands Value-Added Services Portfolio with New Global Merchant Capabilities2026-02-14
PR Newswire
Visa Appoints New Leadership to Accelerate Next-Gen Digital Payment Infrastructure2026-06-05