# Software Development Engineer

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Software Development Engineer on the Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) team at Visa, you will build, automate, and evolve the infrastructure that processes billions of real-time transactions across 200+ countries.

You will write Python, build agentic AI tools, manage data platforms, and contribute to the distributed systems that power Visa's payment processing.

Responsibilities:

- Design and ship end-to-end automation for deployment pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and release orchestration

- Write clean, production-grade Python to eliminate toil, reduce manual intervention, and make systems self-managing

- Develop modular frameworks for release scheduling, validation, rollback, and reporting

- Support the build, deployment, and operations of relational database systems

- Gain exposure to real-time event streaming architectures that support payment processing at scale

- Perform database health operations including patching, upgrades, backups, and recovery

- Optimize query performance through index tuning, execution plan analysis, and replication monitoring

- Automate database tasks and configuration management using tools like Ansible and Liquibase

- Build predictive and reactive monitoring dashboards for database anomalies

- Ship agentic AI & ML-Powered Tools, integrating LLMs into observability, incident response, and developer support workflows

- Own observability & platform health, building dashboards, alerts, and metrics using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK

- Engineer for reliability & security, ensuring infrastructure and data platforms meet security and compliance standards

- Collaborate, learn & grow fast, embedding within Agile squads and participating in on-call rotations

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

- Solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, and systems design

- Proficiency in Python and comfort writing scripts or tools in at least one additional language (Go, Java, or Bash)

- Foundational understanding of relational databases (RDBMS): SQL, data modeling, query optimization, and database connectivity troubleshooting

- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and meaningful command-line fluency

- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and a conceptual understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- data structures
- algorithms
- systems design
- relational databases
- SQL
- data modeling
- query optimization

### Nice to have
- Go
- Java
- Bash
- Linux/Unix
- cloud platforms
- containerization
- CI/CD principles
- GenAI platforms
- agentic systems

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