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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, Apache Kafka, Docker, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc.

Responsibilities include

Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans/models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput payment processing system.

Design and contribute to performance and resiliency testing and tuning of distributed components.

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

Evaluate, develop, and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visa’s most critical payment applications

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

Monitor application performance, optimize performance bottlenecks and usage to create an application capacity model

Design and develop Performance best practices and influence non-functional requirements at early stages

Work closely with application development teams to provide technical direction to improve application performance

Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design trade-offs, code best practices and lessons learned

Support in triaging and troubleshooting of performance degradation related incidents in production environment

Contribute to ongoing capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises

Extraordinary software engineering talent

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

7-10 years hands-on experience in Performance Engineering role

Should have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives.

Should have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders

Should be able to provide mentor support emphasizing performance testing methodology, preparation, scripting, execution planning, simulation and test results reporting.

Should be able to drive end to end performance test activities.

Should have ability to work independently and be a team player.

Actively contribute to capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises.

Support in triaging and troubleshooting of issues related to performance degradation incidents in production environment

Exposure to hardware, software, and distributed applications environments and solid understanding of their associated capacity and performance indicators

Demonstrable experience supporting and enabling application infrastructure that supports high availability/resiliency.

Must have demonstrated experience in building systems software preferably in domains that require high through-put and low-latency

Hands-on experience in automation and atleast one of the programming/scripting languages (Java, GoLang, .Net, Perl, Python, shell script)

Knowledge of functional programming languages like GoLang, 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

Ability to design and develop re-usable, readable, and automated performance test scripts

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

Experience in managing performance environment including infrastructure, configuring firewalls is a plus

Effective verbal and written communication skills

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

Good understanding and awareness of state-of-the-art and current trends in performance engineering is a big plus

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.