Staff Software Engineer - (Google Cloud Platform) (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa
Foster City, CAPosted 16 April 2026

Job Description

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:  We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.    The Work itself:  Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability  Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings  Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads  Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.  Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology  Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities  Essential Functions: Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements. Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance. Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.  Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products. Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.   Preferred Qualifications: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience 3+ years building and operating systems on Google Cloud Platform Proven experience owning mission-critical, production systems at scale Experience with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) Hands-on knowledge of microservices, GKE, data pipelines, Dataflow, Spanner, Pub/Sub, active-active setup, and streaming systems on GCP Experience migrating workloads from on-prem or other clouds to GCP GCP certifications such as: Professional Cloud Architecto Professional Cloud Developer Experience in regulated or high-compliance environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, etc.)   Strong proficiency in: Java Spring boot SQL & NOSQL DBs   Deep experience with: Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures REST/gRPC API design Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernete ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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