Senior Principal Software Engineer, Mastercard
$212-407k
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3 days a week in office
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$212-407k
Salary range dependent on candidate location
More information about location
3 days a week in office
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
- Prior experience in senior technical leadership roles such as Senior Engineer, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Enterprise Architect within large-scale technology organizations, with a strong focus on platform engineering and enterprise architecture
- Experience designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native platforms supporting high availability, scalability, and performance requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems
- Experience building and supporting real-time, data-driven platforms, including AI/ML inferencing and decisioning systems
- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid architecture environments
- Experience designing APIs, integration patterns, and enterprise-scale service orchestration solutions
- Hands-on experience with data platforms, streaming systems, and large-scale data pipelines
- Exposure to AI/ML platforms, MLOps practices, and model deployment and lifecycle management in enterprise environments
- Experience defining and driving enterprise architecture standards, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices
- Strong experience evaluating architecture trade-offs across scalability, performance, cost, and business priorities
- Strong programming experience in a modern language such as Java, Go, or Python
- Track record of mentoring engineers and elevating engineering maturity across teams and organizations
- Strong communication skills with experience presenting complex technical solutions to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences
- Proven track record of driving consensus and alignment in large, matrixed organizations
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- Mastercard’s AI & Data Platform Engineering team is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to provide technology leadership and strategic influence across enterprise-scale initiatives for the next generation Decision Management Platform. With deep architectural expertise and ability to collaborate across the organization, you will have the ability to drive innovation and engineering excellence
- Key areas of focus include leveraging disruptive technologies in the real time AI inferencing and decisioning domain to improve product effectiveness, increase business agility, increase technical resilience and scalability, and lower cost of ownership
- You will work closely with the technology executive, senior leaders and engineers to play an important pivotal role in shaping the overall AI & DPE technology strategy for the wider AI & DPE team
- Enterprise Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Lead architectural design for complex, enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services and programs
- Define and evolve service interactions, dependency models, and policies to ensure scalability, security, and resilience
- Partner with business and product leaders to architect and deliver new services that enable innovative products and bundles. Customer Experience & Platform Strategy
- Own and improve the end-to-end customer experience across a portfolio of services and applications
- Simplify and optimize architecture strategies to balance cost, performance, and business value
- Apply judgment and experience to make trade-offs between competing priorities and technical constraints. Thought Leadership & Influence
- Drive organization-wide initiatives to advance software engineering craftsmanship and best practices
- Represent the organization through public speaking engagements, technical blogs, and white papers on emerging technologies
- Participate in Principal-level architecture reviews and resolve enterprise-wide technical and regulatory challenges. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
- Consult across teams and organizational boundaries to identify synergies, reuse opportunities, and eliminate silos
- Mentor engineers at all levels, fostering technical growth and leadership
- Promote knowledge sharing within guilds and programs to accelerate innovation and productivity. Talent & Culture
- Conduct technical interviews to raise the performance bar and attract top talent
- Champion behaviors that align with organizational values and drive a culture of excellence
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)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.
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