Chief Software Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa • Foster City, CA

211d • $204,500 - $296,700

About The Position

Visa is looking for a hands-on and versatile Chief Software Engineer for the Open VisaNet Engineering team. This individual will act as one of the key technology leaders within the organization to provide oversight in building Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world. 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 initiatives 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, Kafka, Kubernetes, Splunk etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure, and solution architects.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in design and development of large-scale information products and services with highly distributed microservices architecture.
• Extensive experience with application development with GoLang/C/C++.
• Experience in developing design for availability and resiliency, performance modelling, and capacity planning.
• Knowledge of DBMS architecture, experience on query development and best practices, in-depth architectural knowledge of at least one NoSQL/Columnar database, experience with Kafka or any other queueing system.
• Experienced technology leader with a minimum of 15+ years of software development experience with minimum 8 to 10 years of experience in design and development of large-scale information products and services with microservices architecture.
• Sound understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevSecOps model, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and good knowledge of various deployment models.
• Proficient in cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes, Containers, microservices, Serverless, etc. (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Understand the Security requirements and standards and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
• Experience in large scale platform delivery, large scale migration project.
• Domain experience in payment technologies or any finance domain.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical vision and roadmap for application delivery of Open VisaNet.
• Driving the change in technology to help the application excel.
• Leading the efforts for code review and design reviews.
• Pioneering innovative solutions or extending existing solutions to meet project needs.
• Overseeing cloud migration and optimization on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Building a sustainable framework for delivering quality products.
• Reviewing design and code for reliability and performance.
• Ensuring deliverables are scalable and design itself is scalable.
• Becoming a security champion by owning the responsibility of component security.
• Mentoring and building next-gen leaders.
• Leading discussions around choice of technology or process.
• Collaborating with internal and external teams to provide guidance to OVN delivery teams.
• Championing agile best practices.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees