Systems Engineer – Developer

Company Description

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.

The Staff Systems Engineer in the Developer Experience group will be responsible for engineering and supporting various technologies and tools to provide best Developer experience for Visa’s Development community.

Key responsibilities include:

• Engineer vendor products to Visa’s environment by designing, installing, upgrading, patching, and maintaining Developer tools.
• Create implementation procedures using automation tools / pipelines / gitops to manage the state of tool in target environment.
• Setup / create / maintain, K8s or VM environments for the tool and follow a promotion process to take the vendor solution from non-prod to production for each release/upgrade/patch.
• Assess need for third party / external integrations, meet the requirements of users using the platform, capable of creating custom implementations (plugins / extensions within or outside the tool to interface with it)
• Partner with internal departments such as Cybersecurity and Governance groups to ensure controls are established maintained and complied for all Developer tools.
• Interact with vendors and provide necessary feedback to tailor vendor products to meet Visa’s needs.
• Perform regular housekeeping on tools to provide high standards of application stability and reliability.
• Create standards/ suggestions for using the platform by Visa users.
• Support ongoing Developer Tools projects and provide technical input as needed.
• Support complex technical issues in an interop production environment.
• Participate in L3 on‑call support rotation.
• Support Audit / compliance conversations for the tools and be able to implement guardrails to protect the system from unintended usage.

• Project management
• Source code management.
• Build and Deployment management.
• Test and Quality tools.
• Developer productivity and analytics tools.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Visa will accept applications for this role until at least October 3, 2025.

• 5+ years of relevant 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• 4/5+ years of experience working in the capacity of a Devops role, build/release/systems engineer, or any other software development related job
• Good administrative knowledge of Git Hub,Jenkins, GH Actions,Artifactory, ArgoCD, Sonar Qube, DTRs
• Good working knowledge in the use of software build tools, e.g. maven, npm or Gradle.
• Minimum 2 years hands‑on experience with Kubernetes required.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with AWS /GCP/Azure required.
• Proficient in atleast 1 programming language – Java/Python/Groovy/Go Lang
• Proficient in Unix and Windows commands
• Good knowledge in writing pipelines for CI/CD and templates management
• Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting and debugging technical issues.
• Excellent knowledge using tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Graffana, Prometheus, Cloud watch and other monitoring tools.
• Proficient with DORA, SPACE and FLOW metrics to build and understand software engineering productivity metrics.
• Excellent knowledge of Dev Ops practices and procedures
• Proven ability to multi‑task
• Self‑motivated and…