Principal Software Engineer
Mastercard13 days ago
Base Salary
$170k - $281k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple engineering organizations.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions focused on scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and operational excellence.
- Define enterprise architecture patterns, reference implementations, decision frameworks, and reusable engineering capabilities.
- Evaluate technology investments, transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, and architecture decisions.
- Design and develop AI-enabled engineering tools, architecture assistants, and knowledge platforms.
- Drive adoption of AI-powered capabilities, platform reuse, shared services, and build-once-run-many practices.
- Influence Engineering Principles, SDLC, Secure Software Lifecycle Standards, and architecture governance practices.
- Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure Engineering, Product Engineering, and Business Operations teams.
- Produce technical thought leadership, architecture guidance, standards documentation, and executive-level communications.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects while fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and delivering highly scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise software solutions.
- Deep expertise in software architecture, cloud platforms, microservices, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple teams and business domains.
- Strong experience establishing engineering standards, governance models, architecture frameworks, and operational excellence practices.
- Expertise in reliability engineering, observability, performance optimization, and production operations.
- Experience developing reusable platforms, shared services, and enterprise technology capabilities.
- Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps methodologies.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating technical innovation into business value.
- Demonstrated success driving cross-functional technical decisions through influence and collaboration.
- Exceptional communication, analytical, problem-solving, and strategic-thinking capabilities.
Benefits
- Full-time benefits generally include medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; flexible spending and health savings accounts; paid leave; 401(k) with company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; tuition reimbursement; and other benefits.
- Paid leave includes 16 weeks of new parent leave, up to 20 days of bereavement leave, 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, 5 personal days, and 10 annual U.S. observed holidays, prorated based on date of hire.
- The posting states that Mastercard intends to fill the position by 12/21/2026, or as soon as possible if that date has passed.
- The stated location is O'Fallon, Missouri.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).