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The Staff Engineer, Cloud Observability will drive the technical execution of key strategic and tactical programs, advancing observability for Visa's  next-generation application and services. This is a highly-visible role within Platfrom as a Service (PaaS) – organization that is chartered to architect, plan, engineer, and operate Visa's Cloud observability platform powering over 100K + sever assets serving thousands of application and services.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior technical leader to contribute to the delivery of Visa's vision for the transformation of the company's observability capabilities using Hybrid virtualization, and cloud technologies.

Essential Functions:

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using hands on JAVA, Spring, GoLang, Python as well as other modern functional programming languages to support enterprise Observability solutions
• Build observability platform solutions using Kubernetes, Envoy, ISTIO service mesh and other container related technologies
• Expert level Experience in Google Cloud and AWS
• Expertise and experience in delivering large-scale systems using big data technologies including but not limited to: Enterprise scale data pipelines using Kafka, Prometheus, and other Time Series databases
• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

Basic Qualifications:

• 4 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree
• Experience in design and development of large scale frameworks and products and services using JAVA, Spring and GOLang
• Experience in developing container applications 
• Hands on Developers only may apply. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters or higher) 
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols
• For you to qualify you must be a Hands on Developer and with Focus on automation
• Must be a proven team player 
• Extraordinary software engineering talent

Work Hours 

• This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements 

• This position requires the incumbent to travel for work less than 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, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

EEO Statement 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.