Transform global payment systems through automation and innovation
About The Role
Join Visa's Middleware Reliability Engineering team to revolutionize how we deliver and maintain Middleware products supporting critical payment systems. You'll lead hands-on software engineering efforts for our automation and observability initiatives, ensuring the seamless processing of billions of transactions across the world's largest payment network.
What You'll Do
- Drive Resiliency and Availability: Partner with Platform Engineering and Product teams to enhance middleware reliability across Visa's network, implementing operational best practices and integrating quality measures throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Champion Automation: Design and develop robust automation solutions using Python, Java, and Go to streamline deployment, monitoring, and incident response processes for our middleware infrastructure.
- Infrastructure as Code: Leverage your expertise in Terraform and Ansible to manage and provision infrastructure components, ensuring consistency and repeatability across our environments.
- CI/CD Optimization: Enhance our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins and git to accelerate software delivery and improve code quality.
- Observability Enhancement: Integrate middleware products with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and in-house monitoring tools to provide comprehensive observability into system health, performance, and potential issues.
- Drive Innovation: Lead our evolution toward cloud-native solutions and modern DevOps and Observability practices.
- AI Integration: Develop integrations with AI/ML frameworks, chatbots, and agents to enhance automation and operational intelligence.
- Lead Technical Growth: Mentor team members on software development and promote DevOps best practices across the organization.
Why You'll Love It
- Meaningful Impact: Your automation will help process billions of transactions globally
- Technical Growth: Work with cutting-edge technologies and shape architectural decisions
- Professional Development: Regular learning opportunities and conference attendance
- Work-Life Integration: Flexible hybrid schedule (2-3 days in office)
- Inclusive Environment: Join a team that values diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving
Security Focus
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault and secret management
- Understanding of security best practices and PCI and SOC compliance requirements
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting mutual TLS authentication protocols for secure service-to-service communication in distributed systems is required.
- Understanding of security best practices and PCI and SOC compliance requirements
- Knowledge of identity and access management principles
What Makes You Thrive
- You're passionate about automation and infrastructure as code
- You enjoy mentoring and knowledge sharing
- You approach problems systematically and thoughtfully
- You value collaboration and clear communication
- You're eager to learn and adapt to new technologies
Team Culture
You'll join a collaborative environment that:
- Embraces diverse perspectives and innovative solutions
- Promotes knowledge sharing and continuous learning
- Values work-life balance and sustainable practices
- Encourages experimentation and creative problem-solving
- Supports career growth and professional development
Impact & Growth
In this role, you'll:
- Set the Middleware Reliability Engineering vision and strategy at Visa
- Mentor and grow technical talent
- Drive adoption of modern DevOps practices
- Influence architectural decisions
- Build systems that process billions in transactions
- Pioneer AI/ML integration in operational tooling
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

