Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

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

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering with a passion for optimizing the performance of complex software systems. A Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering at VISA needs to be able to plan, execute and manage performance projects for multiple platforms. When diagnosing a performance issue, they need to be able to work with application logs, and dive deeper into the source code, profiling information, and OS and system metrics to RCA performance issues. They need to be able to run experiments and benchmarks to understand the performance of a complex distributed system and isolate performance issues. They also need to have good judgement and experience to know what performance issues have the biggest impact to our customers. They need to be organized and able to clearly present results and recommendations to development teams. They need to be comfortable reading, modifying, and optimizing Java code to test performance hypotheses. In this role, you’ll be a Staff performance engineer within an agile team providing direction and roadmap for other performance engineers.

As a Staff Software Engineer – Performance Engineering you will lead performance engineering meetings with all the relevant stakeholders.

You’ll drive performance awareness, develop test plans, acquire and implement testing tools, and execute exploratory testing. Your expertise will ensure our platform delivers an excellent user experience, even under peak loads.

This is a critical role where your contributions will directly impact the scalability and efficiency of our software, working closely with development teams to advise on and enhance performance throughout the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Drive awareness of performance-related techniques and issues within the development team.
• Develop performance tests plans and strategies in conjunction with new software development.
• Develop and acquire performance testing tools and frameworks and implement test software for acceptance.
• Execute exploratory testing and acceptance of new features/releases as part of a story-driven Agile development process.
• Serve as an advisor to development teams on enhancing performance.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Software Development/QA experience in a production environment, including front-end and API development and testing
• Proficiency in web application performance testing, including experience with Load Balancers, Linux, Node.JS, Tomcat, Micro Service Architecture, Transactional flows
• Experience with performance monitoring of applications, database servers, No SQL and SQL queries
• Proficiency in JavaScript and at least one scripting language (Java, Ruby, Python)
• Experience in building test frameworks and integrating within a CI stack using tools like GIT, Jenkins, JIRA etc
• Experience with performance testing frameworks/tools (Jmeter, Loadrunner, VuGen)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Additional Information

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.