Sr. SW Engineer

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’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.     

The Opportunity: 

Visa's Observability Team ensures the effective monitoring and logging of the company's infrastructure and applications. Utilizing a variety of tools to provide comprehensive observability, which aids in proactively identifying and troubleshooting issues, enhancing system performance, and ensuring high availability.

Our latest project involves build in-house enterprise level log management solutions. We are seeking an experienced and driven Senior Software Engineer to lead this development effort. The ideal candidate will have extensive software engineering experience, a deep understanding of database systems, and the ability to drive projects to successful completion.

Essential Functions

• Participate in the design, and implementation of complex features in our log management system.

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define requirements and deliverables.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting knowledge sharing and professional development.

• Develop and implement best practices and standards for deploying and managing applications.

• Perform regular code deployment to the production environment and automate CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployments.

• Implement application performance monitoring (e.g. memory, latency) and proactively identify monitoring gaps on an ongoing basis.

• Conduct thorough code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices.

• Perform system and application performance tuning and optimization to maximize efficiency and scalability.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to bring innovative ideas to the team.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-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 or Master’s degree in computer science, or a related field.
-3+ years of experience in software development with Bachelor’s or 1+ years with Masters
-Expertise in Golang and Java.
-Good to have knowledge of C, C++, and Python.
-In-depth knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Fluentbit, etc.,
-In-depth knowledge of database technologies, preferably Clickhouse or other columnar databases.
-Proven track record of leading projects and delivering high-quality software.
-Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
-Excellent communication and leadership skills.
-Experience with Ansible is an added advantage.
-Must have Unix knowledge.

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