Description
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Architecture & Technology team, driving enterprise engineering strategy, architecture standards, and technology excellence across Mastercard.
As a senior individual contributor, you will provide deep technical leadership across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, resiliency, observability, and software engineering practices, influencing technology direction across multiple teams and domains.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple engineering organizations
- Partner with platform CTOs, architects, and engineering leaders to evaluate technology investments and transformation initiatives
- Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions to improve scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and operational excellence
- Define and evolve enterprise architecture patterns, reference implementations, and reusable engineering capabilities
- Serve as a recognized subject matter expert in cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, platform engineering, observability, and reliability engineering
- Design and develop AI-enabled engineering tools, architecture assistants, and knowledge platforms to improve engineering productivity and decision-making
- Drive adoption of AI-powered capabilities that make architecture standards, design guidance, and engineering best practices more accessible across the organization
- Influence the evolution of Engineering Principles, SDLC, Secure Software Lifecycle Standards, and architecture governance practices
- Guide engineering teams in selecting technologies, architectures, and platform capabilities that align with Mastercard's strategic objectives
- Promote build-once-run-many, platform reuse, and operational excellence through shared capabilities and engineering best practices
- Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure Engineering, Product Engineering, and Business Operations teams to strengthen engineering effectiveness and operational readiness
- Create technical thought leadership, architecture guidance, standards documentation, and executive-level communications that influence organizational engineering direction
- Mentor senior engineers and architects while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, 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 skills with the ability to engage technical teams, executives, and business stakeholders
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking capabilities
- Passion for innovation, continuous learning, and advancing engineering excellence at enterprise scale
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Annual bonus or commissions
- Insurance (medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- Flexible spending account and health savings account
- Paid leaves (new parent leave, bereavement leave)
- Paid Sick and Safe Time
- Vacation time and personal days
- 401k with company match
- Deferred compensation for eligible roles
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement