{"id":1174630,"url":"https://alion.io/job/visa-senior-software-engineer-5","title":"Senior Software Engineer","company":{"id":83,"name":"Visa","domain":"visa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/visa","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":115,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.626,"repost_share":0.026,"time_to_fill_p50_days":23,"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":34000,"max_usd":73000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":21},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"Fluent Bit","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"OpenSearch","optional":true},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":true},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":true},{"name":"Splunk","optional":true},{"name":"SRE","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T10:57:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-28T00:39:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"About Us\nVisa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.\nAt Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.\nJoin Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nVisa’s Observability Engineering team builds and operates enterprise-scale monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms that help power Visa’s global payments ecosystem. Our platforms support mission-critical applications and infrastructure, with an emphasis on reliability, security, resiliency, performance, and operational excellence.\nThe Opportunity\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can apply software engineering experience and a platform mindset to build and operate large-scale distributed systems. In this hands-on role, you will design and deliver scalable observability solutions, develop automation, and partner with application and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and operational readiness across Visa’s technology environment.\nYou will leverage development experience and familiarity with cloud-native platforms, observability technologies, and highly available production environments to contribute to secure, always-on digital payments. We welcome candidates with transferable platform engineering experience who are motivated to deepen their observability expertise.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDevelop, and maintain scalable solutions for monitoring, logging, and tracing across Visa’s hybrid and cloud environments.\nBuild platform services, automation, APIs, and self-service capabilities using languages such as Python, Golang, or Java.\nContribute to observability architecture, engineering standards, and practical patterns that improve reliability and developer productivity.\nSupport large-scale deployments, platform modernization, and continuous improvement across enterprise observability platforms.\nPartner with application and infrastructure teams to advance instrumentation, telemetry adoption, and production readiness for critical Visa services.\nApply Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices to improve platform reliability, repeatability, and efficiency.\nParticipate in root cause analysis, performance optimization, capacity planning, and resiliency improvements for production platforms.\nCollaborate through design discussions, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship within observability and platform engineering initiatives.\nVisa requiresat least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience\nPreferred Qualifications:\n3 or more 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)\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n4 or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.\n\nExperience developing production software using any one of the programming languages Golang/Python/Java\n\nExperience designing, building, or operating distributed systems or platform services.\n\nUnderstanding of system architecture, reliability, performance, security, and automation principles.\n\nExperience working collaboratively across engineering teams and communicating technical concepts clearly.\n\nAnalytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to learn new technologies and apply them to complex engineering problems.\n\nAbility to adapt to next technology stack that is needed per project priorities.\n\nNice-to-Have Skills\n\nExperience with observability concepts across metrics, logs, and traces.\n\nFamiliarity with one or more technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Elastic/OpenSearch, Splunk, or equivalent platforms.\n\nExperience with Kubernetes, Docker, or modern container platforms.\n\nFamiliarity with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Ansible, GitOps, or CI/CD automation.\n\nExperience operating or scaling platforms in AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid environments.\n\nExperience contributing to architecture decisions, engineering standards, or platform modernization initiatives.\n\nHow You Will Contribute\n\nBuild pragmatic, reliable solutions that improve the experience of application and platform teams.\n\nTake ownership of complex engineering problems while collaborating openly with teammates and partner teams.\n\nContribute to platforms that operate at enterprise scale with high expectations for availability, security, and resiliency.\n\nInfluence technical direction through clear communication, practical standards, and credible engineering contributions.\n\nHelp advance automation, platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence across a global technology environment.\n\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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