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Sr. SW Engineer

Visa
life insurance, paid time off, 401(k)
United States, California, Foster City
900 Metro Center Boulevard (Show on map)
Jun 30, 2025
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.

Job Description

Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Sr. SW Engineer (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to:

  • Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components.
  • Work with product owners and architects to develop and test highly scalable and highly available microservices.
  • Develop core framework components and libraries which will be used by several development groups.
  • Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in production environment.
  • Document design tradeoffs and long-term architecture decisions.
  • Advocate for software development best practices.
  • End to end ownership of developed code and help Test, Performance and Chaos engineers to ensure the application meets functional and non functional spec.
  • Position reports to the Foster City, CA office and may allow for partial telecommuting.
    Qualifications

    Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or closely related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a software engineer-related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or closely related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or in a software engineer-related occupation.

    Experience in the following skills required:

    • 1 year of experience in developing distributed systems.
    • 1 year of experience in Docker or Kubernetes.
    • 1 year of experience in development of large-scale information products and services.
    • Any amount of experience with concurrent and parallel programming.
    • Any amount of experience with functional programming languages like GoLang, Scala, Haskell, or Clojure.
    • Any amount of experience with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
    • Any amount of experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage, and networking protocols.
    Additional Information

    Worksite: Foster City, CA

    This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

    Travel Requirements: This position requires domestic and international travel 5-10% of the time

    Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

    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.

    Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

    U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $180,960.00 to $182,300.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for an annual bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Program, FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time off and Wellness Programs.

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