Performance Reliability Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce   We operate the worlds most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants 15k Financial Institutions and billions of everyday people   While working with us youll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms     

The Opportunity 

We are looking for Versatile curious and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale  As a Visa Software Engineer you will be an integral part of a multifunctional development team inventing designing building and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base While building components of powerful payment technology you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions   

The Work itself 

Job Description

Value added Service Acceptance Solutionsis a Product Development PD Group within the Visa Technology Team This group is responsible for building leading edge fullservice Payment Solutions for our customers by combining global payment processing fraud management payment security and reporting systems We are a group of bright motivated engineers and technical managers excited about building the next generation of Payment products that will drive eCommerce mobileCommerce as well as POS businesses for our customers

Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plansmodels for a highly scalable lowlatency highlyavailable and highthroughput payment processing system

Work with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshootingperformance monitoring

Hands on experience in UnixLinux OS environments and operating system internals file systems diskstorage and networking protocols System internals Having working knowledge with VMs and Containers

Expert knowledge and strong experience using tools LoadrunnerJmeter etc and understanding of APM solutions like Appdynamics dynatrace OPNET etc

Coding Knowledge in programming languages like JavaPython and scripting languages is must

Evaluate develop and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visas most critical payment applications

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

Should have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify GoLives Should have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders

Should be well versed in documenting the steps performed during course of performance tests cycle including performance test scripts used

Should be able to able to look at the code and suggest optimization techniques

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements

• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features under minimal guidance

• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages eg HTML C Java to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements 

• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across ecommerce products

• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions

• The Skills You Bring

• Energy and Experience A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

• Challenge the Status Quo Comfort in pushing the boundaries hacking beyond traditional solutions

• Language Expertise Expertise in one or more general development languages eg Java C C

• Builder Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

• Learner Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular React Kubernetes Docker etc

• Partnership Experience collaborating with Product Test Devops and AgileScrum teams

We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics For instance we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didnt work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa

This is a hybrid position Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 23 set days a week determined by leadershipsite with a general guidepost of being in the office 50 or more of the time based on business needs 

Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
2 or more years of work experience
5 to 8 years of experience in Software Development or Performance Engineering with handson experience in at least one technology stack preferably Java and other related technologies
Professional work experience in highly scalable web services Exposure to containerized microservices architecture and stacks is a big plus
Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting rootcause analysis and implementing major components for large projects
Understanding of Disaster Recovery methodologies is a plus
Experience working with Agile teams
Excellent oral and written communication
Knowledge of monitoring tools like SplunkOperaThread Heap dump analysis GCGraphana
Knowledge of monitoring of system matrix and analysis
A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering a Masters degree is a plus
Experience working in fast paced 247 environments is key to this role

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.