VisaSenior Software Engineer- PaaS Engineering
Visa is hiring a Senior Software Engineer- PaaS Engineering in Austin, United States. It pays $111k-$172k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Visa.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this software engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions Kubernetes, Terraform and Temporal among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Visa has 826 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Senior software engineer building cloud infrastructure automation platforms with generative AI and agentic capabilities.
About Us
Visa 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.
At 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.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Would you like to be part of an exciting agile team building the Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure Automation platform for Visa?
Does the idea of solving challenging technical problems and getting to the bottom of layered intricacies intrigue you? Do you have the zeal and persistence to see through our vision — from design to go-live — and make it a reality?
Join our team to build the web experiences and services that power, extend, and showcase Visa's internal Cloud platform. This includes capabilities for requesting and managing environments across VMs, containers, and bare metal; workflow automation and orchestration; graphs and visualizations for relationships and utilization; and infrastructure-as-code tooling that lets other teams consume the platform programmatically.
You'll create efficient, reusable systems with extensive test coverage, using modern technologies including Kubernetes, Terraform, and Temporal-based workflow orchestration. You'll work in a rapidly iterative environment where we prototype new user interfaces and services and ship code frequently — with real ownership of architectural, product, and technological decisions.
Essential Functions:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, distributed, multi-threaded applications
- Write high-quality, testable, production-ready code
- Apply Generative AI and agentic patterns to build self-service and self-healing automation capabilities within the platform
- Showcase excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
- Be a proactive player with a passion for delivering zero-defect, high-quality code
- Collaborate with team members and participate in design reviews, development, and code reviews
- Align with direction from Management, Technology, and Business partners to deliver robust, usable solutions that meet functional requirements
- Create documentation and procedures for development, deployment, and maintenance
- Deliver all assigned responsibilities on time and with a high level of quality
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 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)
- Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts
- Experience building REST-based web services and web applications using Java and Spring Framework
- Understanding of Generative AI technologies and agentic frameworks, and the ability to think creatively about applying them to improve and automate within the payment technology space
- Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing systems
- Experience writing asynchronous, workflow-driven automation; familiarity with orchestration engines such as Temporal is a strong plus
- Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS (React or Angular)
- Building microservices that connect to MySQL, MongoDB, and Kafka
- Strong understanding and hands-on expertise with Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and building automation around their APIs
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, and hands-on experience with Terraform for automation and orchestration of platform services
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Splunk, CloudWatch, and/or the ELK stack
- Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows; familiarity with Linux is highly desired
- Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI."
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.How we rate this
Senior Software Engineer- PaaS Engineering at Visa rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $111k
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- $167k
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where cloud infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where agentic patterns was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Kubernetes in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, Distributed Systems, Agentic Patterns, and Kubernetes. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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