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.
Job Description
The Opportunity
We are seeking a skilled and innovative Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help solve complex challenges on a global scale. The Middleware Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) group is dedicated to ensuring our products and services operate with Always On availability, exceptional reliability, and outstanding performance.
This role is ideal for software engineers with AI & ML backgrounds who want to apply their skills to large-scale reliability engineering. You'll develop intelligent automation systems and integrate machine learning models into our middleware infrastructure, working at the intersection of software development, artificial intelligence, and site reliability.
As a Visa Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional team inventing, designing, building, testing, and operating software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building and supporting components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
What You'll Do
- Support Middleware software and infrastructure components for all lines of business at Visa
- Design and develop software solutions for middleware reliability using AI & ML techniques
- Develop and improve Middleware monitoring and observability systems
- Build intelligent automation systems leveraging machine learning models
- Develop and maintain automation tools and integrations into existing AI & LLM frameworks to handle application support tasks
- Collaborate with data science teams to integrate AI-driven insights into reliability engineering
- Engage in production issue troubleshooting, provide immediate service restoration, follow up on root cause analysis, and ensure permanent fixes are implemented
- Coordinate and execute Middleware releases and production deployments
- Optimize performance and tuning for Middleware applications
The Skills You Bring
Collaboration and Communication You possess strong interpersonal skills and excel at both written and verbal communication. You thrive in team environments and collaborate effectively with globally dispersed virtual teams.
Learning and Growth You are adaptable and eager to learn new technologies and tools. You enjoy sharing knowledge with others and contributing to collective team growth.
Innovation and Problem-Solving You are comfortable exploring beyond traditional solutions and embrace new technologies and innovative approaches. You excel at analytical thinking and creative problem-solving.
Decision-Making and Prioritization You effectively prioritize, multitask, and deliver quality work on time. You can make informed decisions on execution timelines and maintain focus in high-pressure situations.
Professional Development You take initiative in your work and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership. You are motivated to learn new technologies and business concepts to facilitate both personal and organizational growth.
Professional Ethics You demonstrate strong business ethics, self-discipline, and trustworthiness, particularly when handling sensitive and confidential data in live production environments.
Technical Troubleshooting You possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to swiftly identify and resolve complex technical issues. You excel at debugging, performance tuning, and root cause analysis. You are proactive in anticipating potential problems and implementing preventative measures to minimize disruptions.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Desired Qualifications:-
- 3-7 yrs of DevOps experience with a bachelor's/master's degree in computers or related discipline.
- Experience supporting Middleware technologies (such as Tomcat, Apache, Springboot, MKS, SQS, JBoss, IBM MQ, IBM DataPower, Hazelcast, Flink) - we value depth over breadth
- Software development experience with proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, Java, Go)
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and operating models
- Understanding of monitoring and observability solutions (such as Prometheus, Splunk)
Good to have:-
- AI & ML engineering experience or coursework
- Experience integrating AI & LLM frameworks into production systems
- Contributions to open-source projects
Why Join Our Team:-
- Work with cutting-edge AI & ML technologies in production environments at global scale
- Collaborative team culture that values diverse perspectives and contributions
- Opportunities for professional development, continuous learning, and mentorship
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement supporting work-life integration
- Inclusive environment committed to building diverse teams and fostering belonging
- Impact the digital future of global payment technology used by millions worldwide
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.