Sr. Software Engineer - Core Automation Platform

About the Role

Visa's Technology organization is a global community of innovators solving complex challenges in commerce. We operate one of the world's largest payment networks, processing over 65,000 secure transactions per second. Joining Visa means working on highly distributed, large-scale systems that power the future of payments, data solutions, cybersecurity, AI, and next-generation customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the future of AI-driven operations for one of the world's largest payment platforms.
• Build and scale intelligent automation, observability, and operational solutions for highly integrated, high-throughput systems.
• Leverage GenAI and AIOps to improve incident detection, response, and system reliability.
• Collaborate with world-class engineers to solve complex technical challenges at global scale.
• Contribute to a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, blameless postmortems, and proactive problem solving.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field.
• Experience working within Agile development environments, including SAFe and globally distributed teams.

Skills

• Generative AI frameworks and tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack, AWS Bedrock, or similar platforms.
• Backend development using Python, with FastAPI strongly preferred.
• Frontend development using React and TypeScript.
• Event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka/MQ/SQS.
• Vector databases and retrieval technologies such as FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, or similar solutions.
• CI/CD automation and developer platforms, including GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, ServiceNow, and related tooling.

Highly Desirable Skills:

• Distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) implementations at scale using cloud-based or enterprise vector stores.
• Building and deploying solutions on AWS, including Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, Bedrock, and SageMaker.
• Event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis.
• Developing reusable platforms, frameworks, or developer tools that accelerate adoption across engineering teams.
• Experience in payments, financial services, risk management, fraud analytics, or other highly regulated industries.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program

Work Model: Hybrid, requiring at least 3 days in office.

Travel Requirements: 5-10% of the time.

Location: Office setting, requiring sitting, standing, and operating standard office equipment.