Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (Performance Engineering) (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa - Belmont, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Belmont, CA

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About the position

This position is for an experienced software engineer focused on performance engineering within Visa's Open VisaNet team. The role involves hands-on activities in performance and chaos engineering, including developing performance plans, conducting testing, and collaborating with various teams to enhance application performance in a high-availability payment processing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance plans and models for applications and infrastructure in a scalable payment processing system.
• Take ownership of component-level performance engineering tasks, including code and data flow reviews.
• Create and participate in performance and resiliency testing of distributed components.
• Collaborate with Development, Test Engineering, Support, and Product & Project Management teams to document requirements and timelines.
• Assess, create, and execute load-testing tools for Visa's critical payment applications.
• Engage in performance engineering with a shift-left approach on microservices and establish benchmarks.
• Design and conduct chaos-resiliency evaluation experiments on microservices.
• Perform root cause analysis for identified performance issues.
• Analyze metrics and trends to enhance application performance.
• Present corrective actions and conduct sessions with developers and architects for improvements.
• Oversee the system performance lifecycle and identify key metrics for enhancements.
• Generate regular performance engineering reports for review by stakeholders.
• Deliver technical presentations to guide teams on improving system performance.
• Innovate solutions to enhance performance engineering effectiveness.
• Contribute to performance tuning, scalability, reliability, and high availability of distributed components.
• Ensure proper documentation of design trade-offs and best practices.
• Support in troubleshooting distributed services in production environments.
• Design and develop performance engineering aids like profiles and observability frameworks.
• Establish and promote performance best practices and influence non-functional requirements early in the development process.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8+ years of relevant work experience without a degree.
• In-depth understanding of application performance KPIs and their trade-offs.
• Capability in performance modeling using performance test data.
• Solid grasp of microservices architecture and Linux systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Linux memory management and IO subsystems.
• Proficient in at least one programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Java.
• Experience in creating performance test strategies and chaos test case scenarios.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Payment technologies is advantageous.
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years with an Advanced Degree.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program