Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
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How old is it?
Posted 18d ago
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We have tracked this listing since 24 Sep 2026 (7 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently just now.
Is it remote?
The listing says yes
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Who may apply?
Brazil
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Pay not stated
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The listing
About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining solutions that ensure Visa’s application services operate with high availability and reliability. This role contributes by helping define the reliability expectations that services must meet, guiding application teams through resilient architecture and design choices, and creating repeatable evidence that critical services can tolerate realistic failure modes. Because the team is still small, the candidate must be able to work independently, lead complex technical work with limited guidance, and influence application-owning teams without direct authority.
All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.
The Reliability & Resilience Engineering squad works to improve the reliability and resilience of the services sold to customers. The team provides subject matter expertise in chaos engineering, reliability standards, resilience design, observability, and continuous reliability improvement. This consultant-level role is expected to operate as a high-autonomy technical owner within the function, creating clarity from ambiguity and translating business reliability goals into practical engineering standards, experiments, technical guidance, and improvement plans.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own complex resilience engineering work across priority services.
- Design, plan, conduct, and report on controlled chaos experiments and game days.
- Establish repeatable chaos testing patterns.
- Define reliability and resilience standards.
- Translate incidents, observed failure modes, SLO misses, and experiment findings into actionable engineering improvements.
- Provide architecture and system-design guidance to application teams, especially around circuit breakers, load shedding, timeouts, retries, dependency isolation, graceful degradation, observability, alerting, and failure containment.
- Author technical design documents, experiment plans, standards, post-experiment reports, and improvement proposals.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on support to raise the reliability capability of the teams they work with.
- Deliver documented resilience standards, reusable experiment templates, clear production readiness criteria, completed pilot experiments, prioritised remediation backlogs, and measurable improvements in the resilience posture of selected customer-critical services.
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
Qualifications
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.
- Experience in Kubernetes and related technologies such as Helm, ArgoCD, and Terraform.
- Experience in automating complex tasks and processes using programming languages such as Python, Go, and Java.
- Experience in planning and performing chaos experiments using tooling such as Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit, Litmus, or equivalents
Preferred Qualifications:
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's 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.
- Experience working with Agile teams.
- Experience in fast-paced 24x7 environments.
- Experience in distributed systems design and maintenance.
- Experience in cloud and system architecture across hybrid platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience in observability and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience working as a software developer
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.