Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

• Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans, models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput payment processing system and good experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization

• Work with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

• Evaluate, develop and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visas most critical payment applications.

• Understand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.

• Experience with larger scale Distributed systems debugging

• Experience in automating performance testing as part of CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins or similar 

• Should be able to provide mentor support emphasizing performance testing methodology, preparation, scripting, execution planning, simulation and test results reporting.

• Should have ability to work independently and be a team player.

• Experience with database systems internals, query optimization, understanding and tuning query access plans, and query execution instrumentation.

• Actively contribute to capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises.

• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of issues related to performance degradation incidents in production environment

• Monitor application performance, optimize performance bottlenecks and usage to create an application capacity model.

• Help optimizing system components such as CPU/Memory/Disk/Network & OS/Application software for maximizing the computer resources utilization.

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.

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 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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.