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From the employer's careers site First seen 5 Nov 2026

Software Engineer - Risk and Security

Visa Austin, TX Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$133,300 to $213,400 USD per year

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Description

Visa's Value Added Service [Risk and Security] team is looking for a Software Engineer to design and develop services for customers in an agile environment. You will collaborate with colleagues to create leading-edge payment solutions, combining global payment processing, fraud management, payment security, and reporting systems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, document, and implement new systems, enhancing and modifying existing software to comply with design specifications, security, and Java best practices.
  • Develop application and infrastructure performance plans/models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available, and high-throughput payment processing system.
  • Work with architects and development teams to ensure proper metrics instrumentation for real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
  • Utilize tools like Loadrunner/Jmeter, Appdynamics, dynatrace, OPNET, or other comparable tools.
  • Evaluate, develop, and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visa's critical payment applications.
  • Understand and performance test APIs, abstractions, and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
  • Define Performance Strategy and report performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives.
  • Handle multiple tasks and stakeholders, documenting steps performed during performance tests cycles.
  • Suggest optimization techniques by analyzing code.

What You'll Do:

  • Design for Reliability: Architect and implement solutions that keep Visa's application services running with Always On availability.
  • Automate Everything: Create intelligent automation for monitoring, deployment, and incident response.
  • Lead Investigations: Solve complex technical puzzles and prevent future incidents.
  • Drive Innovation: Contribute to evolving from traditional applications to cloud-native solutions.
  • Collaborate Globally: Work with talented engineers and clients across the world.

Why You'll Love It:

  • Real Impact: Your code will help process millions of transactions, enabling commerce worldwide.
  • Growth Opportunities: Regular learning sessions, mentorship programs, and exposure to cutting-edge technology.
  • Work-Life Integration: Hybrid work model (2-3 days in office) with flexible scheduling.
  • Inclusive Culture: Join a team that promotes diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving.

Technical Areas You'll Grow In:

  • Cloud & System Architecture: Design scalable, resilient systems across hybrid cloud platforms.
  • AI/ML Operations: Support and optimize ML model deployment pipelines and monitoring systems.
  • Observability & Performance: Master advanced monitoring, tracing, and performance optimization techniques.
  • Automation & Intelligence: Build smart alerting systems and automated remediation workflows.
  • Distributed Systems: Monitor and maintain globally distributed payment processing systems.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Python
  • Loadrunner
  • Jmeter
  • Appdynamics
  • dynatrace
  • OPNET

Nice to have

  • GenAI
  • ChatGPT
  • LLM
  • containerized microservices architecture
  • Splunk Opera Thread Heap dump analysis GC Grafana

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Austin-TX/Staff-SW-Engineer---Performance-Engineering_REF089838W

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