Senior Manager, SW Engineering

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Open Visa Net, the next generation Visa Net, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost‑effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best‑in‑class technology components. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real‑time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open Visa Net leverages state‑of‑the‑art open software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch, etc.

It involves collaboration with an exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, Dev Ops engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Visa is looking for a passionate Dev Ops Engineering leader to lead engineers who are part of Open Visa Net, Visa's next generation payment processing platform developed on open systems that will fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.

Senior Dev Ops leaders with significant experience in building cloud‑based platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We are looking for candidates who have strong technology foundation and previous hands‑on design/coding skills for this role.

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and upholding high engineering, quality standards and a shift‑left security mindset.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.
• Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.
• Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of team deliverables.
• Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.
• Responsible for coaching, managing & mentoring direct reports.
• Develop and nurture a team of developers by motivating, mentoring, and assisting in hiring critical talent.
• Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault‑tolerant distributed components and solutions using core Dev Sec Ops  principles.
• Promote / evangelize GenAI adoption for developer productivity improvements across teams with relevant metrics. Develop automation rails, as required, for measuring productivity.
• Improve Dev Sec Ops  maturity in tools and processes and measure them using relevant metrics.
• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable which includes CI/CD practices, pipelines and workflows, leveraging best‑in‑class CI/CD tools.
• Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery / deployment, continuous observability and release engineering.
• Champion application, infrastructure security efforts. Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques. Champion application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.
• Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross‑functional development activities.
• Responsible for the stability and high availability of both production and lower environments.
• Design and implement APIs,…