Senior Chaos & Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Devopsroles; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to architect and maintain high-availability services, guiding teams on resilient design and creating evidence that services meet reliability goals. The role demands independent execution, technical ownership, and influence without formal authority across cross-functional teams.

All roles expect digital fluency with emerging tech, including Generative AI tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 0 years with PhD or 8+ years without degree.
• Experience with Kubernetes and related tools (Helm, ArgoCD, Terraform).
• Experience automating tasks with Python, Go, or Java.
• Ability to plan and perform chaos experiments using tooling such as Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit, Litmus, or equivalents.

Responsibilities

• Own complex resilience engineering work across priority services.
• Design and run controlled chaos experiments and game days.
• Establish repeatable chaos testing patterns.
• Define reliability and resilience standards.
• Translate incidents and failure modes into improvements.
• Provide architecture guidance on circuit breakers, timeouts, and observability.
• Author design documents, experiment plans, and improvement proposals.
• Mentor engineers during reviews and guidance.
• Deliver documented standards and measurable improvements in resilience.

Skills

Chaos engineering

Observability

Reliability engineering

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Advanced degree

PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Terraform

Python

Go

Java

Job description

Visa is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to architect and maintain high-availability services, guiding teams on resilient design and creating evidence that services meet reliability goals. The role demands independent execution, technical ownership, and influence without formal authority across cross-functional teams.

All roles expect digital fluency with emerging tech, including Generative AI tools.