Staff Software Engineer K8

  • 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.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

 

Job Description

Our team works together to build a wide variety of web experience that power, extend and showcase Visa's internal Cloud platform such as requesting and managing environments using either virtual machines, K8/Containers, Function as a Service, workflow automation tools, graphs and visualizations for relationships/utilization and a whole lot more. As a part of this team, you'll create efficient and reusable systems with extensive test coverage and modern technologies. You'll also work in a rapidly iterative environment where we prototype new user interfaces and ship new code frequently. Ultimately, you'll have the opportunity to own projects by driving architectural, product and technological decisions.

Job responsibilities

  • Work independently, driving projects end to end and provide guidance to junior developers
  • Develop scalable, distributed, multi-threaded applications using Java/Spring
  • Build tools to automate our deployment pipelines
  • Build tools to report on status of operations and performance
  • Build automated tests and enable continuous delivery of the platform components
  • Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development and code reviews​
  • Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices and development methodologies.
  • Create documentation and procedures for development, deployment and maintenance

Qualifications

 

  • Basic Qualifications
    • 6 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 4 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree
  • Preferred Qualifications 
    • 8-14 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or
    • 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters)
    • 5 years of experience with a PhD.
    • Experience of Installation/administration of Kubernetes Cluster
    • Solid Understanding of K8 APIs and internals of K8
    • Experience in developing and extending APIs with Go Lang
    • Experience in installation/configuration of Istio
    • Solid understanding of Micro Segmentation
    • Experience of building software/frameworks for infrastructure automation/PaaS/Continuous Delivery
    • Extensive hands-on experience with Linux and Windows
    • Process oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills
    • Work independently with minimal supervision
    • Work independently, driving projects end to end and provide guidance to Junior developers
    • Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices
    • Collaborate and talk through your architecture and delivery decisions
    • Tackle the tough design and product problems
    • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Key words

    Go Lang, Kubernetes, Istio, Operator, Helm, Installation/Configuration/Administration experience, Micro Segmentation

Additional Information

Work Hours: 

  • Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

 

Travel Requirements:

  • This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5% of the time.

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, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

 

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

 

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