Principal Software Engineer, Mastercard
CA$148-237k
Global payments technology company
Job no longer available
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$148-237k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- This is a highly technical role that requires a deep understanding of hardware/infrastructure, Linux operating systems, and how software is designed and tuned to maximize these layers to deliver the best performance
- The ideal candidate for this position should possess intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- Architecting and operating mission critical, high volume, low latency services onto elastic infrastructure ranging from public cloud to private datacenters
- Integrating AI, Business Rules and in-memory Distributed Grid technologies to produce the high performance and flexible decisioning systems required to protect Mastercard customers and offer them the best possible payment experience
- Real-time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Flink, NIFI, AWS Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics
- Architecting high performance application data services against data stores with very large amounts of data
- Points of failure analysis and architect ‘always-on’ solutions by building resiliency architecture allowing seamless failovers between availability zones
- Engaging with engineers at all levels across the engineering organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
- Passionate about solving complex performance and availability problems
- A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, and Oracle
- Performance tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Dynatrace, software profilers, Splunk, etc
- Capacity modeling/planning processes and tools
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an audience at all levels within an organization
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
What the job involves
- This Principal Performance Architect role will be responsible for evolving the performance and availability engineering of the platform, as well as providing consultation to the development engineers to help design solutions that maximize performance and capacity of our platform
- This position will help lead new initiatives within the Decision Management organization around the next generation of infrastructure, Container-as-a-Service (CaaS), observability, and items related to the overall resilience and availability of our platform
- This architect role will partner with solution architects, software engineers, and other team roles to assess the platform’s needs, help design new capabilities, establish architectural roadmaps, design and run tests/proof-of-concepts, help troubleshoot problems, identify risks, and make recommendations
- A successful candidate will ensure potential performance and availability challenges are proactively identified, recommendations implemented, and that the systems’ capacity and availability exceed requirements while ensuring the platform achieves business results
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
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Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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