Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build 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.
•Drive reliability-focused design in partnership with engineering and platform teams
•Lead architecture and launch readiness reviews, including:
oCapacity planning
oFailure-mode and risk analysis
•Define and enforce non-functional requirements (availability, latency, resilience)
Production Ownership & Incident Leadership
•Own production reliability and service health
•Act as incident commander, leading triage, mitigation, and communication
•Lead blameless post-mortems with clear, actionable follow-ups
•Proactively identify and reduce operational risk across the system
Observability & SLO Management
•Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
•Design and operate monitoring and alerting using:
oPrometheus, Grafana
oOpenSearch / Elasticsearch
oOpsgenie
•Build dashboards aligned to user impact and system health
Automation, Scalability & Platform Enablement
•Drive automation-first operations to scale systems sustainably
•Enhance CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with deployment gating and validation
•Identify and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks
•Improve developer experience through operational tooling and best practices
Technology Environment
•Kubernetes, Docker
•GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
•Prometheus, Grafana (observability)
•OpenSearch / Elasticsearch (logging/search)
•Opsgenie (incident management)
•AWS or equivalent cloud platforms
•Preferred: Spring Boot and/or Golang services
All About You
•Years of professional experience operating distributed systems at scale in production
•Strong expertise in:
oKubernetes and containerized environments
oObservability (metrics, logging, tracing)
oSpring Boot and/or Golang ecosystems
•Hands-on across application, infrastructure, and release pipelines
•Demonstrated ownership of service reliability, incident response, and operational strategy
•Ability to influence system design through technical leadership and data-driven decisions
•Pragmatic mindset—balancing automation, trade-offs, and system evolution
•Experience navigating enterprise environments while maintaining delivery velocity
•Leverages AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to:
oAccelerate design, coding, and testing
oImprove code quality and operational outcomes
•Integrates AI into workflows:
oArchitecture reviews, code generation, testing, and documentation
•Applies strong judgment in production-critical, low-latency environmentsMastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
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