Director - Cybersecurity Product Engineering

Foster City, CA, United States

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Visa

Das digitale und mobile Zahlungsnetzwerk von Visa steht an der Spitze der neuen Zahlungstechnologien für die neue Zahlung, elektronische und kontaktlose Zahlung, die die Welt des Geldes bilden

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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

You are an engineer who has domain knowledge or an interest in networking, Big Data, machine learning and cybersecurity You are ready for an exciting opportunity working hands on with the world’s most cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies and thrive in a super dynamic environment where you are being counted on to help to defend Visa from the most advanced cyber threats. You are looking to innovate the next generation of cybersecurity technology with Petabytes of data.

You will leverage cutting-edge technologies to perform statistical profiling, inference, classification, clustering and predictive analysis. As a key member of the technical team, you will translate cyber and network security related requirements into simple or sophisticated models to help derive new insights to defend against cyber-attacks. You will be working with a large variety of data sets, cutting-edge security technologies, and world-class operation teams to create awesome analyses.

Essential Functions

  • Serve as a lead data scientist leading and supporting various analytical initiatives

  • Research and prototype new machine learning techniques to enhance Visa’s ability to identify and respond to threats.

  • Work with domain experts, engineers, and  manage data scientists to develop, implement, and improve analytical models and use cases.

  • Lead the use case development for internal analytical products.

  • Define, generate, and report metrics and KPIs and ensure service level targets are defined and achieved.

  • Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders

  • Consistently demonstrates Visa leadership principles

  • Provide technical guidance and managing /mentoring to junior team members

Responsibilities

  • Knowledge and experience with statistical and machine learning techniques.

  • Experience with data science model implementation on Hadoop and Spark.

  • Exceptional coding skills in Python.

  • Knowledge and implementation experience with statistical and machine learning models (regression, classification, clustering, graph models, anomaly detection etc.)

  • Experience in developing and managing advanced cyber threat detection platforms using Pyhton, RESTApi, FastAPI framework, Angular, SQL database, Docker, and Kubernetes

  • Experience in developing and maintaining production grade data pipeline architecture for cybersecurity products using Python, Shell Script, SQL/ No SQL database, and RESTApi

  • Experience in developing deep learning-based ML model for cyber threat detection and have patents on such topics

  • Experience in developing and maintaining data science and ML model deployment architecture using Python, PySpark, HDFS, Druid, SQL/ No SQL database, JupyterHub

  • Experience in developing and managing enterprise grade product backend development in python, Java, Java EE framework and front end in Angular

  • Experience in cyber security incident response automation using Python, Cherrypy Framework, RESTApi, and SQL Database

  • Experience in leading and owning cybersecurity products in large organization like Visa.

  • Deep understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures, security frameworks such as MITRE, and incident response operations.

  • Knowledge and experience with privileged account security management is a plus.

  • Experience with Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and criminal actors and advanced knowledge of associated Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) is a plus

  • Knowledge and experience with multi-cloud , primarily around interfacing data services between Azure , AWS and GCP.

  • Experience with enterprise network and technologies will be a plus.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• You have experience managing high-visibility and high-impact enterprise cybersecurity projects with cross-functional teams while maintaining superior results including planning, development and management of technical requirements, design, testing and deployment of security solutions
• PhD in a data related field such as computer science and mathematics
• Prior experience and knowledge with cyber-security
• 5+ years experience in developing analytical solutions/products.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 180,800.00 to 235,000.00 USD, 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. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

Tags: APT Automation AWS Azure Big Data Cloud Computer Science Docker FastAPI GCP Incident response Java KPIs Kubernetes Machine Learning Mathematics Network security PhD Python SQL Threat detection

Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Health care Insurance Salary bonus Startup environment Wellness

Region: North America
Country: United States
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