Visa

1 month ago

Director, Software Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end engineering for Visa Direct Alias (ADS/Alias) platform on GCP, combining strategic direction with deep technical expertise. Drive GenAI-first practices to boost productivity, testing, troubleshooting, release efficiency, and operational excellence. Manage cross-functional teams delivering scalable, secure, highly reliable distributed systems for mission-critical payments in a regulated environment, partnering with Product, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Operations.

Location: Bogotá

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead a cross-functional engineering organization responsible for the YP ADS/Alias platform on GCP.
•Drive GenAI-first engineering practices to improve development, testing, troubleshooting, release efficiency, and operational workflows.
•Deliver scalable, secure, highly reliable distributed systems supporting business, client, and regulatory needs.
•Advance modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automation, observability, feature flags, and safe production rollouts to strengthen execution predictability.
•Build and develop a high-performing team; communicate engineering strategy, priorities, risks, and progress with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Key Requirements

•10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, or 7+ years with an advanced degree (e.g., Masters/MBA/JD/MD), or 4 years with a PhD, or 13+ years of relevant experience.
•15+ years of relevant engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platform engineering, and production operations.
•Strong experience with GCP services and cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes/containerized workloads.
•Experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, infrastructure automation, release discipline, test automation, and progressive delivery.
•Familiarity with reliability practices (incident management, root cause analysis, alert tuning, production readiness) and payments/financial technology or other highly regulated environments.

Experience:PaymentsFinancial technology

Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationStrategic leadershipContinuous improvement

Languages:SpanishEnglish

Tech Stack:GCPKubernetesCI/CDObservabilityFeature flagsAutomationDistributed systemsCloud-nativeInfrastructure automationProgressive delivery

Company Brief

Visa

Global payments technology company that operates the VisaNet electronic payments network, facilitating credit, debit and digital transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments worldwide.

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 1958

Glassdoor: 3.8

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Visa

1 month ago

Director, Software Engineering

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 17 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Bogotá

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead a cross-functional engineering organization responsible for the YP ADS/Alias platform on GCP.
•Drive GenAI-first engineering practices to improve development, testing, troubleshooting, release efficiency, and operational workflows.
•Deliver scalable, secure, highly reliable distributed systems supporting business, client, and regulatory needs.
•Advance modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automation, observability, feature flags, and safe production rollouts to strengthen execution predictability.
•Build and develop a high-performing team; communicate engineering strategy, priorities, risks, and progress with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Key Requirements

•10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, or 7+ years with an advanced degree (e.g., Masters/MBA/JD/MD), or 4 years with a PhD, or 13+ years of relevant experience.
•15+ years of relevant engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platform engineering, and production operations.
•Strong experience with GCP services and cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes/containerized workloads.
•Experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, infrastructure automation, release discipline, test automation, and progressive delivery.
•Familiarity with reliability practices (incident management, root cause analysis, alert tuning, production readiness) and payments/financial technology or other highly regulated environments.

Experience:PaymentsFinancial technology

Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationStrategic leadershipContinuous improvement

Languages:SpanishEnglish

Tech Stack:GCPKubernetesCI/CDObservabilityFeature flagsAutomationDistributed systemsCloud-nativeInfrastructure automationProgressive delivery

Company Brief

Visa

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 1958

Glassdoor: 3.8

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor