Principal Software Engineer - Software Builder Enablement Cloud-R-253970

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Principal Software Engineer - Software Builder Enablement Cloud

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Mastercard Software Builders Experience (MSBX) team is seeking a Principle Software Engineer, Software Builder Enablement Cloud to lead the design, development, and scalability of our Builders Cloud Platform and common CI/CD pipelines. You will be instrumental in driving platform architecture, modernizing DevOps practices, enabling self-service developer experiences, and building reusable infrastructure patterns across the engineering organization.

This role requires a strong background in cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration/delivery systems, and a passion for building scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platforms.

Role

Architect and evolve a Builders Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to abstract and streamline cloud infrastructure usage.

Design reusable components, templates, and modules for container orchestration, service discovery, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning.

Build secure, multi-tenant solutions that support development, staging, and production environments

Provide technical direction, mentorship, and architectural guidance to engineering teams using the platform.

Drive platform adoption by engaging with stakeholders, gathering requirements, and evangelizing best practices.

Lead platform governance and evolution initiatives with a focus on cost efficiency, observability, and resilience.

Introduce and maintain observability tools and strategies for platform monitoring (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Promote Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices such as SLIs/SLOs and automated remediation.

Design and implement enterprise-wide CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, high-quality software delivery.

Establish best practices and tooling standards for pipeline templates, security scanning, artifact management, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, etc.).

Collaborate with security teams to integrate DevSecOps principles into the pipelines.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.

Deep expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), especially in core services (EKS/GKE, IAM, VPC, ECS, S3, etc.).

Strong experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory , Sonar ).

Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Java , Node, Shell , bash scripting , or TypeScript).

Proven experience with Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and related tools (Helm).

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform).

Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional initiatives, platform roadmap definition, and engineering enablement.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
  
  
  

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