Software Development Engineer- Product Reliability Engineering

Postgres
UNITED STATES
November 12, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Visa
Location: Highlands Ranch, CO
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Visa is a world leader in payments technology. As a Software Development Engineer on the Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) team, you will build, automate, and evolve critical infrastructure that processes billions of real-time transactions, treating infrastructure as code and reliability as a product.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design and ship end-to-end automation for deployment pipelines and infrastructure provisioning using Python and Go/Bash.
  • Manage & Evolve Data Platforms, contributing to schema design and solution engineering for critical payment data infrastructure.
  • Perform database health operations including patching, upgrades, backups, and recovery on tier-1 production databases.
  • Optimize query performance through index tuning, execution plan analysis, and replication monitoring.
  • Automate database tasks using Ansible and Liquibase within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ship GenAI-powered engineering assistants to automate deployment orchestration and release governance.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and comfort writing scripts in at least one additional language (Go, Java, or Bash).
  • Foundational understanding of relational databases (RDBMS): SQL, data modeling, query optimization, and database connectivity troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and meaningful command-line fluency.
  • Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Understanding of CI/CD principles and modern software delivery pipelines.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
  • Experience with database CI/CD tooling, particularly Liquibase.
  • Database administration exposure: backup/recovery procedures, performance tuning, index management, or replication monitoring.
  • Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or Datadog.
  • A GitHub profile, personal project, or open-source contribution.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, and Paid Time Off.

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 protect veteran status.

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