Description
Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Platform Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure.
The role combines hands-on technical leadership across Mastercard's Big Data Engineering team with people management responsibilities, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned to enterprise priorities.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that meet scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency requirements
- Oversee the development and operation of container platforms and orchestration environments (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Ensure platform capabilities support evolving application performance and business needs
- Establish and mature CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to enable efficient, high-quality software delivery
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, automated infrastructure provisioning and management
- Guide teams in building and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Provide technical direction across software programming practices and frameworks
- Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking)
- Build and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team
Requirements:
- Experience leading high performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset
- Strong expertise across Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Cloudera, etc.
- Experience managing or operating distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go)
- Strong understanding of operating systems and enterprise IT infrastructure
Benefits:
- Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- Flexible spending account and health savings account
- Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- Deferred compensation for eligible roles
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement