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.
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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 a versatile, curious, and energetic Senior Database Engineer to join our team of passionate and dedicated engineers. This role will primarily focus on MySQL.
Database Engineering team is part of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) group under Operations and Infrastructure (O&I) division, which delivers operationally excellent open system database infrastructure and services both on premise (private cloud) and in public cloud. We design, engineer and build reliable, scalable, secure, highly available and cost-effective database infrastructure solutions for our product development partners. The team also provides Level-3 database support for any operational issues and serves as the next level escalation for Database Reliability Engineering team. This is a global team spread across multiple locations in different time zones.
The Work itself:
The work involves designing, implementing, and managing our database systems both on premise and in public cloud environments. Develop Ansible automation scripts for DB provisioning and life cycle management. Build and deploy Infrastructure as Code to manage database instances on public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. This role involves ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of our databases.
This role is expected to collaborate closely with Product development and other partners in Operations and Infrastructure like Compute, Storage, Network and Middleware Engineering teams.
Essential Functions
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Basic Qualifications:-
Preferred Qualifications:-
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.
