Staff Performance Engineer - Open VisaNet

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Job Description

Open VisaNet, the Next Generation payment processing platform for Visa, 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. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9’s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc.

Responsibilities include

* Design detailed application and infrastructure performance plans, help in execution and tuning

* Design and contribute to performance tuning, scalability, reliability and high availability of fault-tolerant distributed components 

* Understand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems

* Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques

* Work with the development team and architects to ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring

* Collaborate with team to build performance test suite. Run simulations with high throughput workload, analyze performance simulation results to fine tune component design and implementation

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

* 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 production environment

* Design and develop Performance best practices

 

Qualifications

* Extraordinary software engineering talent

* Minimum of 6 years’ hands-on experience in Performance Engineering role

* Knowledge of functional programming languages like Go, Scala or the ability to learn them quickly. 

* Experience in using scripting languages and open source Performance tools 

* 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 operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols

* Effective verbal and written communication skills

* BS or MS in Computer Science or related degree from recognized university

* Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus

Additional Information

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be. 

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