Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps

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

Company Description

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

Open VisaNet, is 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. 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, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Job Description

  • Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using core DevOps principles.
  • Hands-on experience in using Docker, Kubernetes with proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
  • Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable. 
  • Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.
  • Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques, integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration.
  • Automated deployment, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and release engineering to Development, QA and Production environments.
  • Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
  • Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of environment automation.
  • Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt).
  • Experience with middleware and databases like Kafka, Aerospike, Cassandra, MySQL or similar.
  • Responsible for the stability and high availability of environments by using automation and self-healing principles.
  • Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review.
  • Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.
  • Collaborate with team to build performance test suite and run simulations with high throughput workload, analyze performance simulation results to fine tune component design and implementation.
  • Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Extraordinary software engineering talent.
  • Minimum of 12-15 years’ DevOps experience.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related degree from recognized university.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages.
  • Knowledge of functional programming languages like Go, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure etc. or the ability to learn them quickly.
  • 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.
  • Experience in working in highly agile environment.
  • Understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, cloud platforms, clustering models, networking technologies.
  • 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.
  • Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.
  • Experience with Docker Networking, Service Mesh, Proxies is a big plus.
  • Certifications from CNCF - CKA / CKAD is a big plus.
  • Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.

Additional Information

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

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