Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

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Summary: Visa is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer for their Identity Engineering team to design, build, and operate secure identity and authorization foundations in modern cloud environments. Highlights: 1. Opportunity to create impact at scale tackling meaningful challenges 2. Hands-on role building, automating, and improving security capabilities 3. Defining best practices for identity and access management **About Us** Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. **Job Description** We are looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Identity Engineering team. This role operates at the intersection of security, platform engineering, and cloud\-native architecture, helping design, build, and operate secure identity and authorization foundations that support critical financial workloads at scale. The engineer will work closely with application engineering, platform, SRE, and external partners to ensure identity services are secure, resilient, and easy to consume. This is a hands\-on role for someone who enjoys building, automating, and continuously improving security capabilities in modern cloud environments. Key responsibilities include: * Designing, implementing, and operating identity and authorization platforms used across internal and external services * Defining and evolving authentication and authorization patterns based on OAuth 2\.0, OpenID Connect, and token\-based security * Supporting and improving API security using API Gateway technologies, preferably Kong, including authentication flows, rate limiting, and policy enforcement * Collaborating with engineering teams to securely integrate identity solutions into APIs and services * Building and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) * Operating and securing Kubernetes\-based workloads and identity\-related services * Contributing to cloud architecture decisions with a strong focus on security, resilience, and scalability * Partnering with DevOps and SRE teams to improve observability, incident response, and operational excellence * Participating in security reviews, threat modeling, and architecture design discussions * Defining best practices, documentation, and reference architectures for identity and access management * Continuously learning and staying current with modern identity, cloud security, and platform engineering practices This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. **Qualifications** Basic Qualifications: 5 or more 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 Preferred Qualifications: 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's 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**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.