Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Data Platform

Visa • Austin, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) is responsible for designing, building, and evolving cloud-native, containerized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure that powers our data products and services. This role plays a critical part in advancing our platform maturity by supporting cross-functional squads, leading complex technical initiatives, and ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and reliability of our data ecosystem.
As a Staff Engineer, you will bring deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture, Azure infrastructure implementation, systems design, networking, databases, and modern data technologies. You will also contribute hands-on experience with complex technology adoption, infrastructure automation, and high-scale distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on building and operating secure, resilient, and scalable solutions in Microsoft Azure environments.
This role requires demonstrated experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing Azure-based platforms and services, including cloud networking, compute, storage, identity and access management, observability, and container orchestration. The ideal candidate will be capable of leading the design and delivery of enterprise-grade cloud solutions using Azure-native and hybrid-cloud patterns, and of driving best practices for reliability, security, and operational excellence across the data platform.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

• 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.
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native, containerized infrastructure that supports data products and services
• Strong expertise in Azure cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, and security
• Experience with container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes, preferably in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or similar environments
• Strong knowledge of systems design, distributed systems, networking, databases, and modern data platform technologies
• Experience implementing and managing infrastructure as code, automation, and configuration management practices
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives focused on availability, scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams, including engineering, platform, security, and product stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and align teams around shared priorities
• Proven ability to work effectively in a remote environment and manage competing priorities across distributed teams.

Nice To Haves

• 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees