Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa is looking for Software Engineers who will help build Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world. 

Open VisaNet, the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiative that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. Building Open VisaNet will involve collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts and infrastructure architects. 

Essential Functions:

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm

• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools

• Develop automation tools and framework for validating highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, low latency, distributed payments transaction processing systems

• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review using tools such as Checkmarx and Sonarqube. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.

• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring

• Collaborate with the multiple teams across Development, Operations & Infrastructure, and Product to analyze and debug issues related to build, deployment, and infrastructure. Support cross-functional teams in integrated test efforts.

• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned.

• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in the production environment.

• Responsible for the stability and high availability of lower environments.

• Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

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)
• Knowledge of functional programming languages like GoLang, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, or the ability to learn them quickly
• Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
• Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt)
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 111,4