Staff Software Engineer, Authorizer Enablement

Technical Skills & Expertise

• Programming Languages: Proficient in Golang, with the ability to work in other languages.

• Version Control: Advanced Git usage, supporting team members in resolving issues.

• Debugging & Bug Resolution: Skilled in identifying and resolving bugs across team and adjacent scopes.

• Code Review: Expert in reviewing code for quality, identifying potential issues, and suggesting improvements that consider cross-domain impacts.

• Testing: Proficient in writing unit, integration, and manual tests. Capable of validating impacts on interconnected applications and performing end-to-end testing.

• Documentation: Experienced in using Swagger, creating flow diagrams, and documenting APIs. Supports DEVEX team in mapping and publishing documentation externally. Promotes documentation culture and produces architectural diagrams as needed.

• Architecture & Standards: Advises on best practices and solutions, aligning with Pismo s validated standards and patterns.

• Product Ownership: Deep understanding of team products, actively participates in feature discussions, prioritization, and impact analysis across teams.

• Infrastructure & Deployment: Skilled in resource creation using Terraform, application configuration, and deployment using Argo, Jenkins, and Codefresh. Understands integrations with Goalkeeper and infrastructure pipelines.

• Containerization & Orchestration: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes, including local setup, debugging, and cluster configuration. Supports SRE teams in advanced operations.

• Database Design: Strong knowledge of relational databases and ability to define strategies for non-relational databases. Capable of modeling data domains and selecting appropriate persistence layers.

• Monitoring & Alerting: Designs monitoring strategies, sets up alerts, and ensures system observability to prevent issues.

• Microservices Architecture: Designs scalable microservices, evaluates architectural trade-offs, and ensures robustness under high request volumes.

• Cloud Services: Proficient in AWS services used at Pismo, applying best practices for performance and integration.

• Distributed Systems: Identifies and resolves distributed system issues, rethinking solutions to optimize performance and reliability.

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. #LI-Remote

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s 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.
• Be based in India.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical Leadership: Consistently leads their squad to successful technical outcomes, ensuring sound engineering decisions that balance technical debt, system design, reliability, observability, and business needs.
• High-Impact Contributions: Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives.
• Coding Standards & Best Practices: Actively enables other engineers to elevate coding standards and deepen awareness of best practices, especially around non-functional requirements.
• Product Awareness & Planning: Demonstrates strong product understanding, contributes meaningfully to quarterly planning, and collaborates with PMs or team leads to shape squad vision.
• Mentorship & Feedback: Proactively supports the growth of other engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, and constructive feedback.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Frequently consulted by engineers from other squads, demonstrating the ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems under pressure.
• Technology Strategy: Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions.