Staff Network Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.    

The Opportunity:

Global Network Engineering is responsible for the strategy, architecture, design, support, and reliability of Visa Inc.'s networks. Network Engineering also shares responsibility with information security for network access and security compliance of all networks. In this role, you will be responsible for the data center design, engineering, and support of IP networks for Visa’s Debit Processing Services (DPS) and Latin America and Caribbean commercial network infrastructure, the network that connects Visa to our commercial clients. 

The Work itself:

• Plan, design, implement and support network systems of moderate complexity in the commercial network environment.

• Support WAN connections and determine capacity requirements for new business or requirements.

• Be the primary source of expertise for client connectivity providing consultancy and advice to both clients and the Visa business.

• Provide network design documentation to project teams, peers, and network support organizations.

• Provision new client processing by completing the necessary network updates and providing technical assistance to clients in support of network changes.

• Perform third-level support within Visa to resolve network issues and provide guidance to other Visa teams involved in network troubleshooting.

• Work with the Cybersecurity to ensure Visa security standards are met and provide technical assistance for investigation and analysis of security events.

• Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of client connectivity.

• Seek opportunities to improve network management through automation and AI. 

Essential Functions

The Skills You Bring:

• Leadership: Leading network engineering contribution to major projects

• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries and challenging the traditional approach.

• Network Expertise: Expertise in design and engineering customer facing network services.

• Builder: Experience building and deploying customer facing network services with an emphasis on quality and scalability

• Learning: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as public cloud

• Partnership: Experience collaborating with other technology teams including third-parties

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least March 11th, 2026.

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.

Preferred Qualifications
•6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors 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
•Network design and engineering experience on customer facing networks.
•Automation and scripting experience (Ansible, Python, Perl, etc.)
•IP networking switching and routing in MPLS based networks. Familiarity with DMVPN implementation in a high availability setting would be useful.
•Experience and expertise with IP routing protocols OSPF and BGP plus knowledge of encryption technologies (IPSec, SSL), standby protocols HSRP and VRRP, and network address translation (NAT) experience.
•Some familiarity with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to facilitate automation.
•Some experience of deploying and using SDWAN technologies would be useful, particularly Silverpeak and Versa.
•Some experience of working on connectivity solutions using leading public cloud platforms would be beneficial, such as AWS and GCP.
•Experience of working in a variety of network operating models including managed services.
•Good interpersonal and leadership skills including effective written and verbal communication skills.
•ITIL certification
•Experience creating low-level network design documentation including detailed Visio diagrams
•Experience leading moderately complex projects, including planning, documentation, and implementation.
•Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and commitments in an environment that requires multitasking among multiple concurrent projects while also handling interrupts.
•Experience in the use of network management tools such as Netbrain, NetScout.
•Experience in the financial and or technology related businesses is desirable.
•Basic ITIL understanding or ITIL certified.
Languages:
•Bilingual in Spanish and English

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:  The estimated salary range for this position is $124,300 to $198,600 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).  Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.