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Cybersecurity Engineer

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23 days ago
Foster City, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$137k - $213k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive security architecture, design, implementation, and optimization for web, API, mobile, and AI-agent applications.
  • Define security requirements, analyze threats and risks, and align solutions with security, engineering, IT, and architecture standards.
  • Conduct security reviews and threat modeling throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Facilitate tabletop, red-team, and scenario-analysis exercises and coordinate remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
  • Develop proof-of-concept prototypes and scalable enterprise cybersecurity products using AI and machine learning.
  • Evaluate emerging cybersecurity tools, companies, technologies, and practices.
  • Transition prototypes into operational products with cybersecurity product-development teams and internal stakeholders.
  • Automate security tools and processes for access control, defense-in-depth, secure coding, and AI-agent governance.
  • Monitor cybersecurity trends and develop protections across payment platforms, public clouds, applications, databases, and enterprise infrastructure.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
  • Experience developing agentic AI applications.
  • Experience developing highly available and scalable enterprise services using Python; Java, Go, Rust, or another object-oriented language is also relevant.
  • Hands-on GenAI experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, fine-tuning, AI agents, or agentic pipelines.
  • Cybersecurity training or education.
  • Preferred experience includes 2–5 years of relevant work, at least 1 year of agentic AI development, and at least 3 years developing Python enterprise services.
  • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX; LLMs such as GPT, Claude, or Mistral; vector databases; and AI-agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience with AI model APIs, AI-agent frameworks, model evaluation, cloud-native development, containerization, distributed systems, RDBMS, and NoSQL databases.
  • Expertise in threat modeling, application and network security, and securing on-premises, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments.
  • Understanding of PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and GLB requirements and strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and wellness program eligibility.
  • At least 3 days per week in the office, with expectations confirmed by the hiring manager.
  • Travel required 5–10% of the time.
  • Work hours vary according to department needs.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache HadoopApache KafkaAWSAzureCouchbaseDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerOpenStackPostmanPythonPyTorchRustSOAPTensorFlowWindows

Categories

Visa

About Visa

10,000+ employees

Visa builds and operates a global digital payments network that connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments. It earns fees for processing card transactions and offering risk, data, and value‑added services through VisaNet and products like tokenization and tap‑to‑pay. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Visa is a public company (NYSE: V) serving clients in more than 200 countries and territories.

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