Cybersecurity Engineer

Visa

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Foster City, CA
Salary: $137,400–$212,500 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 50 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Visa

Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Visa currently has 114 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,850–$251,100 across 110 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Cybersecurity Engineer

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As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will join the Security Architecture team to lead advanced prototyping and research for innovative cybersecurity solutions. You will drive security architecture and design for Web, API, Mobile, and AI Agent applications, performing threat modeling, security reviews, and risk analysis throughout the development lifecycle. Your daily work involves developing proof-of-concept prototypes and scalable enterprise products leveraging AI/ML to protect payment processing platforms and consumer-facing applications. You will utilize Python, Java, Go, or Rust, alongside GenAI technologies like LLMs, prompt engineering, and orchestration tools like LangChain. Technical skills include experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, and databases like Oracle or Cassandra. You will solve complex security challenges across hybrid architectures, ensuring robust defense-in-depth and secure coding practices for global payment systems.

Skills

Python Java Go Rust PyTorch TensorFlow JAX LLMs LangChain LangGraph Autogen AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Docker Oracle MS SQL Couchbase Cassandra Riak Aerospike Kafka Coherence MQ Hadoop IDS SIEM Tripwire Tanium Netwitness Netflow WAF Tokenization Safenet Vormetric HTTP SOAP REST AJAX Forgerock Siteminder zTPF zOS MVS Linux Windows VMWare Openstack SDN PCI HIPPA SOX GLB Agile Prompt Engineering Vector Databases FAISS Pinecone IntelliJ VSCode Postman Jupyter

What you'll do

Drive security architecture and design for Web, API, Mobile, and AI Agent applications.
Conduct security reviews and threat modeling throughout the software development lifecycle.
Develop proof-of-concept prototypes and scalable enterprise products using AI/ML technologies.
Identify and assess innovative cybersecurity tools and concepts to enhance security architecture.
Transition security prototypes into fully operational products in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
Automate security tools and processes for access control, secure coding, and AI governance.
Monitor and analyze emerging cybersecurity trends and technologies to maintain a strong security posture.
Facilitate red-team and scenario analysis exercises to identify and resolve vulnerabilities.

What we're looking for

Must have 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of relevant work experience.
Must have experience in Agentic AI Development.
Must have experience developing highly available and scalable enterprise services using Python.
Must have experience with Java, Go, Rust, or another object-oriented programming language.
Must have hands-on experience with GenAI technologies, including LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, fine-tuning, and AI agents.
Must have cybersecurity training or education.
Must have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science (preferred).
Must have 3+ years of experience developing highly available and scalable enterprise services using Python (preferred).

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