Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity:
Visa's Observability Team ensures the effective monitoring and logging of the company's infrastructure and applications. Utilizing a variety of tools to provide comprehensive observability, which aids in proactively identifying and troubleshooting issues, enhancing system performance, and ensuring high availability.
Our latest project involves build in-house enterprise level log management solutions. We are seeking a visionary and highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer to play a pivotal role in this initiative and lead the development effort. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional technical expertise, leadership skills, and a strategic mindset to drive the success of our project.
Essential Functions
- Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for our log management system.
- Lead the architecture and design of complex, mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with executives and other stakeholders to align technical goals with business objectives.
- Mentor and develop engineering talent across the organization.
- Ensure the implementation of best practices in software development and system design. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting knowledge sharing and professional development
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and ensure the reliability and scalability of the system.
- Stay at the forefront of technological advancements and apply them to our work.
- Collaborate closely with all business units to migrate their knowledge objects from Splunk to Log management solutions.
**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.
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.