Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
Job Description: Software Engineer – Performance Engineering
We are seeking a Software Engineer - Performance Engineering with a passion for optimizing the performance of complex software systems. A Software Engineer - Performance Engineering at VISA needs to be able to diagnose performance bottleneck. When diagnosing a performance issue, they need to be able to work with application logs, and dive deeper into the source code, profiling information, and OS and system metrics to RCA performance issues. They need to be able to run experiments and benchmarks to understand the performance of a complex distributed system and isolate performance issues. They also need to have good judgement and experience to know what performance issues have the biggest impact to our customers. They need to be organized and able to clearly present results and recommendations to development teams. They need to be comfortable reading, modifying, and optimizing Java code to test performance hypotheses. In this role, you’ll be the performance engineer within an agile team working with other performance engineers.
You’ll drive performance awareness, develop test plans, acquire and implement testing tools, and execute exploratory testing. Your expertise will ensure our platform delivers an excellent user experience, even under peak loads.
This is a critical role where your contributions will directly impact the scalability and efficiency of our software, working closely with development teams to advise on and enhance performance throughout the software lifecycle.
Responsibilities
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Drive awareness of performance-related techniques and issues within the development team.
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Develop performance tests plans and strategies in conjunction with new software development.
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Develop and acquire performance testing tools and frameworks and implement test software for acceptance.
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Execute exploratory testing and acceptance of new features/releases as part of a story-driven Agile development process.
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Serve as an advisor to development teams on enhancing performance.
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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 or more years of work experience
- Experience in JAVA, including front-end and API development and testing
- Experience with one of the performance testing frameworks/tools (Jmeter, Loadrunner, Blazemeter)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant degree is preferred
Good to Have:
- Experience with performance monitoring of database servers and writing SQL queries
- Ability to Conduct High TPS performance testing
- Experience with Splunk/Elastic and Grafana dashboards
- Experience working with distributed databases systems, such as MongoDB, Redis, etc
Additional Information
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.
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What We Do
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world. And Visa’s network is expanding, accelerating our growth. Our resilient business model, with its strong track record of success, will provide you with amazing opportunities to grow in your career, as well.
We are looking for people like YOU. Come join a people-centric company where you can invest in your career.
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Why Work With Us
Our employees are our company. Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace has been our key priority. With our purpose to “uplift everyone, everywhere” as our guide, we’re building an environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are celebrated and drive success inside our company and out in our communities.
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