# Lead Software Engineer – Cloud Native Platforms (GCP)

Hiring organization: [Visa Inc.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/visa-inc)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/3e91c24d-a278-40f9-8d8c-313adf4f3963

Listed on Visa Inc.'s own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: US - Foster City, CA
- Salary: 192300 – 307600 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the design and operation of secure, scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform for a major payments processor. It suits experienced engineers who can drive technical excellence in high-transaction distributed systems while mentoring teams and collaborating across product, security, and infrastructure functions.

_Our summary, not Visa Inc.'s wording._

## Skills named

Benchmarking, CI/CD, Cloud Monitoring, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure as Code, Java, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Kubernetes, Microservices, Terraform

## Required

- 10+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent with advanced degree)
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform including GKE, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging
- Deep expertise in Java/J2EE, RESTful APIs, and microservices
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD practices
- Proven ability to design and operate high-throughput, low-latency applications supporting large transaction volumes
- Experience with distributed systems and strict SLA/SLO commitments
- Hands-on technical leadership and mentoring capability

## Nice to have

- 12+ years of software engineering in enterprise, fintech, payments, or regulated environments
- Experience designing high-performance systems with measurable optimization results
- Expertise in Canary and Blue-Green deployments and progressive delivery
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms
- Background in incident management and root cause analysis
- API-first architecture design experience
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and automation

Apply on Visa Inc.'s site: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Foster-City-CA/Lead-Software-Engineer_REF083345W