Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer Performance Engineering with a passion for optimizing the performance of complex software systems. A Staff Software Engineer Performance Engineering at VISA needs to be able to plan execute and manage performance projects for multiple platforms. 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 youll be a Staff performance engineer within an agile team providing direction and roadmap for other performance engineers.

As a Staff Software Engineer Performance Engineering you will lead performance engineering meetings with all the relevant stakeholders.

Youll 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

• Drive awareness of performancerelated techniques and issues within the development team.
• Develop performance tests plans and strategies in conjunction with new software development.
• Develop and acquire performance testing tools and frameworks and implement test software for acceptance.
• Execute exploratory testing and acceptance of new features/releases as part of a storydriven Agile development process.
• 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 23 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

• 5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Software Development/QA experience in a production environment including frontend and API development and testing
• Proficiency in web application performance testing including experience with Load Balancers Linux Node.JS Tomcat Micro Service Architecture Transactional flows
• Experience with performance monitoring of applications database servers No SQL and SQL queries
• Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk Grafana riverbed
• Proficiency in JavaScript and at least one scripting language (Java Ruby Python)
• Experience in building test frameworks and integrating within a CI stack using tools like GIT Jenkins JIRA etc
• Experience with performance testing frameworks/tools (Jmeter Loadrunner VuGen)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime