Job Description

Visa’s Internship Program provides an immersive, 12-week journey where you’ll work on impactful projects that drive Visa’s mission forward. As a Visa intern, you’ll build valuable connections across the organization, sharpen your communication and business acumen, and gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, global environment.

Throughout the program, you’ll have exclusive access to interactive workshops and learning sessions designed to deepen your expertise, expand your industry knowledge, and elevate your professional skillset. You won’t just be learning, you’ll be contributing, collaborating, and innovating every step of the way. In addition to professional development, you’ll enjoy a variety of intern social events that foster community, connection, and fun throughout the summer.

The experience culminates in an exciting final presentation, where you’ll showcase your project achievements, share key insights, and present your recommendations to Visa’s leaders and stakeholders. This is your chance to demonstrate your business impact, highlight your personal growth, and align your work with Visa’s vision for the future.

The Role

Within Technology, the Operations & Infrastructure division provides outstanding infrastructure services that are secure, scalable, and continuously available. We architect, build, and maintain secure and reliable systems and networks to support the business functionality that Visa provides to payment industry partners.

As Site Reliability Engineers on the Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) Tech team, we’re passionate about providing an excellent developer experience that improves the efficiency and productivity of our engineers. We build and run tools and systems that Visa's engineers use every day to iterate, test, and deploy their code.

We are looking for an individual who can appreciate and understand software at a multidisciplinary level and can use this knowledge to help craft our technical direction, from distributed computing, large-scale system design, artificial intelligence, UI design and mobile, and more.

Some job duties and projects could include:

• Participate in day-to-day site reliability engineering functions, including maintenance, deployment, and incident resolution for all in-scope products and services.
• Perform routine application maintenance including host file updates, log rotation, and shell scripting for common tasks.
• Contribute to ongoing/proactive analysis of applicable systems and applications to detect potential problems, with guidance (e.g. memory, logging, latency).
• Maintain and update 3rd party applications (Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Tomcat, WAS, IIS).
• Participate in root cause analysis and run the production environment by monitoring service availability.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications, with guidance.
• Troubleshoot issues reported by Visa clients and partners, providing timely and effective solutions.
• Participate in release calls with development teams to follow release procedures.
• Contribute to automation initiatives as part of projects, with guidance.
• Analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing clear technical documentation and presenting findings via informative presentations.
• Implement and maintain Performance monitoring dashboards using industry standard tools (Splunk, Thousand Eyes, Graphite etc.).
• Support application deployment for new and existing services or features working with diverse groups like Product Development and Engineering.
• Support Customer Support on merchant-raised issues specific to applications. (e.g., increase latency, anomalous application behavior etc.).

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business, or related field, graduating December 2026 - August 2027.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in at least one programming language including, but not limited to, Python, Java, JavaScript, .NET, HTML, and C++
• Experience with one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell, Perl, Python, or PowerShell knowledge
• Solid understanding of Linux/Windows systems, and database and networking concepts
• Theoretical knowledge of cloud and container technologies (Kubernetes, etc.)
• Working knowledge of GenAI and agentic workflows
• Familiarity with fundamental SQL/MongoDB queries and procedures
• Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Availability to support weekend on-call on a rotational schedule
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications, and communications that demonstrate professional judgment
• The ability to tackle challenges and address problems head-on
• Strong ability to collaborate
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Good teammate and excellent interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity

Additional Information

_ U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:_ The estimated hourly range for a new hire into this position is $35 to $40 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.

Work Authorization: Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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

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.