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Staff SW Engineer

Visa
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 3/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/29/2025

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

Visa has a great toolbox of leading technologies including Cybersource and Authorize.net. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems.

We are seeking skilled, proactive, and enthusiastic engineers who are passionate about tackling challenges and are adept at problem-solving. As a DevOps Engineer, you will join a team of professionals focused on constructing and maintaining enterprise-level CI/CD pipelines. Your responsibilities will include infrastructure orchestration, reliability engineering, security, access control, monitoring and tool automation. You will stay updated with the latest advancements in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, reassess architectural decisions, and manage migrations when necessary. We value individuals who are passionate about enhancing processes, reducing inefficiencies in workflows, and enjoy tackling technical challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

 

Essential Functions:

  • Maintain, expand, and create automated Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.
  • Design, implement, and manage reliable build/deployment systems.
  • Mentor and support junior team members, providing guidance and feedback to foster their growth.
  • Use your problem-solving skills to troubleshoot complex issues, driven by a high level of ownership and curiosity.
  • Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development, and code reviews.
  • Monitor official builds and drive infrastructure issues towards resolution.
  • Write optimized, secure, functional, and scalable code, and fine-tune your results for performance.
  • Strive for quality code production, seeking reviews from senior engineers to ensure standard compliance.
  • Develop unit level test cases in line with domain standards using the provided tools.
  • Provide accurate work estimates, a skill that will be developed on the job.
  • Share knowledge through presentations to the development community and assist others with the knowledge acquired over time.
  • Continually seek opportunities for personal growth and contribute to the development processes' improvement within the organization.
  • Generate creative solutions to solve problems.
  • Understand the broader picture and prioritize tasks effectively to meet timelines.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 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
• Should have hands on and good understanding on Release Engineering & Devops tools.
• Responsible for CI/ CD process and issues with respect to release engineering.
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages is a plus: Unix Shell, Perl, Python
• Working experience in Containerization, pipeline creation, Jenkins file/Git
• Working knowledge of Chef/Ansible or equivalent is a must
• Working knowledge in Containerization platform tools like, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience building automation tools.
• Experience with GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure (Linux/Windows), Networking.
• Working knowledge in IAC, Terraform
• Knowledge of platforms like Kafka, NginX, CDN, Redis/Hazelcast, Middleware software, Elastic, various SQL and NoSQL database platforms is also expected.
• Experience supporting and working on web and mobile applications and troubleshooting problems in a cross-functional environment.

Additional Information

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.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 0.00 to per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

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