Senior Principal, Software Engineering
Mastercard17 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of complex software solutions across multiple services, applications, or programs.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable designs.
- Drive architectural decisions, technical design discussions, and strategic technology decisions across teams.
- Own engineering delivery across design, development, testing, deployment, configuration, documentation, and operational readiness.
- Review design, code, test, and deployment artifacts for correctness, quality, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production, security, customer-experience, and performance issues through root-cause analysis.
- Champion automation across build, deployment, testing, observability, and operational workflows.
- Improve architecture simplicity, technical debt, cost efficiency, platform reuse, engineering productivity, and developer experience.
- Consult across organizational boundaries and contribute to engineering guilds, architecture forums, and technical communities.
- Mentor engineers and represent technical strategy in senior-level forums and cross-functional discussions.
Requirements
- Established software engineering expert and technical thought leader with a strong record of individual-contributor impact.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and delivering complex software solutions across large-scale, distributed, secure, and resilient systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead global or cross-functional technical initiatives involving technology, engineering, architecture, product, or business teams.
- Deep experience with software engineering practices, secure coding, code review, testing strategies, and operational readiness.
- Progressive design and development experience using multiple languages and software frameworks, including vulnerability management.
- Expert understanding of architecture patterns, application design, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and modern software delivery.
- Experience translating complex business and functional requirements into technical strategies, designs, and implementation plans.
- Strong understanding of automation, observability, reliability, scalability, and performance engineering practices.
- Ability to balance regulatory, security, business value, customer experience, technical debt, and delivery considerations.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, mentoring, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Experience contributing to engineering communities, architecture councils, technical blogs, white papers, patents, or speaking engagements is preferred.
- Experience setting up production-simulating test environments with high availability, monitoring, automation, and ephemeral architecture is preferred.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building 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.