Cybersecurity Engineer

Visa • Austin, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Identity Engineering team. In this role, you will help build, operate, and continuously improve the security foundations that protect our services—especially around authentication, authorization, and API protection in cloud‑native environments. You will work closely with application engineering, platform teams, and SRE to implement secure identity patterns and support the day‑to‑day reliability and security of identity services. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building, automating, learning, and collaborating.

Requirements

• Approachability and ease of working with, comfortable partnering across teams
• Willingness to learn and take feedback; proactive in improving technical depth over time
• Strong sense of ownership for assigned deliverables, with the ability to ask for help early
• Pragmatic security mindset—focused on enabling teams while managing risk
• U.S. Applicants Only

Responsibilities

• Implementing and supporting identity and authorization capabilities used across internal and external services
• Assisting in the adoption of standard authentication and authorization patterns based on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
• Supporting API security controls via API Gateway (preferably Kong), including authentication flows and policy enforcement
• Helping engineering teams integrate identity solutions into their APIs/services following established security guidance
• Writing and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) under existing patterns and reviews
• Supporting and troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads related to identity services (deployments, configs, runtime issues)
• Contributing to cloud security and architecture discussions with a security‑first mindset
• Participating in operational routines: on-call support (when applicable), incident response support, post-incident follow-ups, and improvements
• Improving documentation, runbooks, and internal enablement materials for identity integrations
• Continuously learning modern identity, cloud security, and DevOps practices, and applying them in day-to-day work

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees