Copy of Chief Software Engineer

The ValueAdded Services Product Development (VAS PD) team drives diversification of Visas revenue through differentiated networkagnostic products that extend the power of the Visa ecosystem. Within VAS the Risk and Security Solutions (RAS) team delivers missioncritical AIdriven risk fraud authentication and identity platforms serving issuers merchants fintechs and partners at global scale.

The Chief Software Engineer in the RAS Product Development team is a senior technical authority responsible for defining and executing enterprisescale technology strategy cloudnative architecture and engineering excellence aligned to business outcomes. This role provides deep technical leadership across Acceptance and Authentication Risk platforms (Visa Enhanced Authentication Visa Secure Cardinal Decision Manager) and Identity platforms (Identity Graph and Device Intelligence).

This position requires handson expertise in public cloud distributed systems securityfirst design and Generative / Agentic AI with a strong focus on developer productivity platform leverage and clientfacing innovation.

Essential Functions

• Define own and evolve the endtoend technical vision architecture and execution strategy for RAS platforms ensuring alignment with business objectives while accelerating innovation scalability and timetomarket.
• Architect design and implement highthroughput lowlatency highly available (99.999%) distributed systems supporting realtime transaction processing authentication and identity services at global scale.
• Lead the enterprise adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI to achieve 10X gains in developer productivity including AIassisted coding testing observability security analysis and autonomous agents for platform operations as well as AIpowered clientfacing product capabilities.
• Establish and institutionalize modern software engineering best practices including CI/CD automation DevSecOps InfrastructureasCode and policydriven governance to improve quality velocity and operational resilience across the SSDLC.
• Drive cloudfirst cloudnative architecture across AWS and/or Azure optimizing for resiliency elasticity performance cost efficiency and zerotrust security using managed services containers and serverless technologies.
• Actively contribute to critical path initiatives by developing core frameworks shared services automation platforms reference architectures and proofofconcepts to validate emerging technologies and accelerate product delivery.
• Provide technical leadership at scale setting architectural standards engineering KPIs and execution priorities while enabling highperforming teams to deliver complex multiyear platform roadmaps.
• Partner crossfunctionally with security privacy risk compliance governance and business stakeholders to deliver compliant secure and resilient solutions meeting strict nonfunctional requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Translate complex technical strategies into clear executivelevel narratives influencing senior leadership product management and external partners through datadriven decisionmaking.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers staff engineers and engineering managers fostering a culture of technical excellence continuous learning innovation and knowledge sharing through design reviews tech talks and oneonone mentorship.
• Implement rigorous engineering excellence practices across design development testing deployment monitoring and incident response to uphold platform reliability security and architectural integrity.
• Exemplify and reinforce Visas Leadership Principles by acting as an owner promoting collaboration and executing with operational and technical excellence.
• This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD OR 15 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD or MD) PhD with 9 years of experience
• Technical Expertise: 15 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in architecting largescale cloudnative distributed systems. Strong proficiency in Java Python GoLang and modern frameworks such as Spring Boot and React.
• Generative AI & Agentic AI: Demonstrated success applying Generative AI and autonomous agents to deliver orderofmagnitude productivity improvements and differentiated product features. Experience integrating LLMs vector databases prompt engineering RAG and AI governance into production platforms.
• Cloud & DevOps: Handson experience with AWS and/or Azure including containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes) serverless architectures and CI/CD pipelines with strong DevSecOps practices.
• Architectural Leadership: Deep understanding of architectural patterns tradeoff analysis and longterm platform evolution. Experience designing and operating activeactive multiregion globally resilient systems.
• HandsOn Leadership: Willingness and ability to contribute directly to production code frameworks and prototypes to validate ideas unblock teams and accelerate adoption of emerging technologies. API & Integration: Extensive experience with RESTful and gRPC APIs microservices architectures service meshes and eventdriven systems (Kafka Pub/Sub streaming platforms). Rust knowledge is a plus.
• Security Expertise: Strong foundation in API security cryptography data encryption key management and HSMs. Proven experience implementing securitybydesign zerotrust and defenseindepth practices in regulated environments.
• Data & Caching: Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores and distributed caching technologies such as Redis. Experience designing data models for highscale lowlatency systems.
• SSDLC Automation: Proven ability to automate the entire SSDLC using automated testing security scanning quality gates observability and release orchestration to improve speed reliability and compliance.
• Leadership & Communication: Exceptional ability to lead influence and mentor engineering organizations. Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to executives clients and diverse technical audiences.

Additional Information :

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 195800.00 to 313500.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time