Cybersecurity Engineer
Visa · Austin, Hybrid, United States
Remote Full-time Posted 5 days ago
About this role
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 Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Identity Engineering team. In this role, you will help build, operate, and continuously improve the security foundations that protect our services—especially around authentication, authorization, and API protection in cloud‑native environments
You will work closely with application engineering, platform teams, and SRE to implement secure identity patterns and support the day‑to‑day reliability and security of identity services. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building, automating, learning, and collaborating. Key responsibilities include: Implementing and supporting identity and authorization capabilities used across internal and external services Assisting in the adoption of standard authentication and authorization patterns based on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Supporting API security controls via API Gateway (preferably Kong), including authentication flows and policy enforcement Helping engineering teams integrate identity solutions into their APIs/services following established security guidance Writing and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) under existing patterns and reviews Supporting and troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads related to identity services (deployments, configs, runtime issues) Contributing to cloud security and architecture discussions with a security‑first
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