Senior Platform Engineer
Mastercard4 days ago
Base Salary
$96k - $163k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and maintain secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud and platform infrastructure.
- Support and improve highly available Big Data and distributed computing environments, including reliability, performance, capacity, availability, and fault tolerance.
- Deploy, administer, troubleshoot, and optimize Kubernetes, container, and orchestration platforms.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software integration, testing, security validation, and deployment.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tools.
- Develop Java, Python, or other software, scripts, and automation to improve platform reliability and operational efficiency.
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux/Unix systems and resolve complex infrastructure, application, networking, distributed-system, and performance issues.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, performance, and operational resilience, and drive continuous improvement.
- Implement infrastructure security controls in accordance with Mastercard security, change-management, and regulatory standards.
- Partner with application and development teams to deliver platform solutions and provide technical guidance, documentation, and cross-training.
- Participate in operational support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and evaluation of emerging technologies.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing, building, operating, or supporting enterprise cloud and platform infrastructure.
- Experience operating highly available, mission-critical distributed systems and troubleshooting complex platform issues.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, container technologies, and container orchestration concepts.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated software deployment processes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, or comparable technologies.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration, shell scripting, system diagnostics, performance analysis, and operational support skills.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java or Python.
- Understanding of microservices architecture, enterprise networking, infrastructure, and distributed-system concepts.
- Experience monitoring and managing platform availability, performance, capacity, reliability, and operational health.
- Ability to identify and implement infrastructure security requirements and troubleshoot problems across applications, infrastructure, operating systems, networks, and distributed platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with Hadoop or other distributed data-processing platforms and large-scale Big Data environments.
- Preferred experience migrating workloads to cloud-native or modern platform environments and using tools such as Chef.
- Preferred experience supporting ETL or data-processing pipelines and knowledge of SQL, data warehousing, massively parallel processing, observability, monitoring, metrics, or performance-management technologies.
- Understanding of statistics, machine learning, or data-intensive workloads is beneficial.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and potential annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for eligible employees.
- Flexible spending account and health savings account.
- 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave.
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, 5 personal days, and 10 paid U.S. observed holidays, with some leave prorated based on hire date.
- 401(k) with company match and deferred compensation for eligible roles.
- Fitness reimbursement or access to on-site fitness facilities.
- Tuition reimbursement eligibility.
- The posting reflects current vacancies intended to be filled by February 10, 2027, or as soon as possible if that date has passed.
- Intern benefits generally include 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, jury duty leave, and on-site fitness facilities at some locations.
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).