SW Engineer

About the job

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa's Value Added Services (VAS) team is building a new generation of products to facilitate commerce in everyone's digital and mobile lives. Our focus is to build intuitive features that expose profound new value for our customers, merchants and developers.
VAS is looking for an Engineering New College Graduate to work with our Security Engineering & Governance team that will be focused on building security capabilities around digital and mobile products. Security is Visa’s number one priority and requires deep cross functional collaboration between architects, developers, and engineers. The Security Automation Engineer will be part of the VAS’s Security Automation Team focused on delivering innovative solutions to ensure secure product lines and timely releases.
You will be expected to work closely with architects, developers, testers, and our Corporate security organization, to deliver security solutions using hands-on experience in security solutions and services. You need to be a self-starter, a quick learner of new technologies and have experience in product security such as secure application design, static code analysis and web/mobile application vulnerabilities, and penetration testing. You will be hands-on and a critical part of the engineering team for a high-performance product security automation framework development, evaluation for needed automation, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Automate VAS's security engineering solutions and aid governance

• Participate in all stages of development from design through implementation

• Understand current security posture of product ecosystem and specifics for VAS's solutions

• Implement cutting edge security technologies, drive towards adoption, create proof-of-concept and frameworks

• Partner with Visa Security teams and enable enterprise wide security capabilities for VAS's services, solutions and ecosystems

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum of 6 months of work experience or a Bachelor's Degree

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, graduating January 2022 - June 2023

Minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent scale)

Preferred Qualifications

2 or more years of work experience

Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications, and communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

The ability to take on challenges and address problems head-on

Strong ability to collaborate

Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented

Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills

Good analytical and problem-solving skills

Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.