Staff Sw Engineer - Google Cloud Platform (gcp)

Visa Visa · Fintech · Foster City, CA

Staff Software Engineer at Visa focused on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build and operate mission-critical, production systems for payment services, transaction platforms, and real-time payments. The role involves designing, coding, and testing software products that reach a global customer base, leveraging innovative technologies on GCP.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
  2. Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
  3. Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
  4. Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
  5. Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Spring boot
  • SQL & NOSQL DBs
  • Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
  • REST/gRPC API design
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Cloud networking, IAM, security best practices
  • CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
  • Observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
  • multi-region deployments in GCP

Nice to have

  • SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
  • microservices
  • GKE
  • data pipelines
  • Dataflow
  • Spanner
  • Pub/Sub
  • active-active setup
  • streaming systems on GCP
  • GCP certifications such as: Professional Cloud Architecto Professional Cloud Developer
  • Angular
  • React

What the JD emphasized

  • mission-critical, production systems at scale
  • regulated or high-compliance environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, etc.)