Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Mastercard is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to support its Cloud Connect initiatives. The role focuses on building secure, scalable connectivity platforms that allow customers to connect to Mastercard services from public cloud environments and private networks through modern cloud-native architectures. The engineer will design, develop, and operate cloud-native applications and services using Golang and AWS. The work includes contributing to system architecture and technical design, developing APIs and databases, supporting high-volume distributed systems, and participating throughout the software development lifecycle. The role also emphasizes automated testing and test-driven development, secure coding, code review and mentorship, observability, operational excellence, production troubleshooting, and performance tuning. The engineer will collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, operations, business partners, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience developing applications using Go (Golang).
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native solutions on AWS.
- Strong understanding of AWS networking services, including VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53, Network Load Balancers, and Direct Connect.
- Experience building and operating containerized applications using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, and related cloud-native technologies.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, scalability patterns, performance optimization, and efficient data structure design.
- Experience conducting code reviews and promoting engineering best practices, software quality, and secure coding standards.
- Knowledge of secure software development practices, including authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and application security testing.
- Experience implementing and maintaining automated testing frameworks, including unit, functional, and integration testing.
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
- Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices using Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker Registry, and related technologies.
- Experience building and supporting applications on Linux platforms.
- Experience implementing observability and operational readiness practices, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Agile software delivery experience in a globally distributed engineering environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Python 3.8 or higher.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, resilient cloud-native applications and services using Golang and AWS for Mastercard Cloud Connect initiatives.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, and operations teams to design scalable solutions, systems, APIs, and databases that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Contribute to software architecture, technical design reviews, and architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are maintainable, performant, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Design and optimize data structures, algorithms, and processing patterns for high-volume distributed systems and efficient resource utilization.
- Participate in the complete software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated unit, functional, and integration tests, and promote test-driven development practices.
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship, promoting coding standards, software quality, maintainability, and engineering best practices.
- Apply secure coding principles and identify and remediate vulnerabilities through code reviews, security testing, and adherence to Mastercard security standards.
- Implement observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and reliability best practices for cloud-native services.
- Perform root cause analysis, troubleshoot complex production issues, and lead performance tuning to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
- Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Follow Mastercard security policies and practices, protect the confidentiality and integrity of information, report suspected security violations or breaches, and complete mandatory security training.
Benefits
- Insurance, including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible spending account and health savings account.
- Paid leaves, including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave.
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time.
- 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, prorated based on date of hire.
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays.
- 401(k) with a company match.
- Deferred compensation for eligible roles.
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities.
- Tuition reimbursement eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
