Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure

Overview:
Mastercard’s Distributed Platforms team is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, to collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers to tackle complex challenges together.

As a key member of the Platform Infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining the tools and systems that deploy and scale our applications and data across both hybrid cloud and physical environments. Your work will enable the Data & Services Platforms team to efficiently build, test, deploy, and host hundreds of microservices across multiple global data centers. Additionally, you will develop critical logging, monitoring, and vulnerability detection tools, providing application developers with deep insights into the security, quality, and uptime of their code. Our infrastructure is managed through infrastructure-as-code practices, leveraging tools such as Chef, Ansible, and Terraform, while our workflows are automated using Jenkins and Kubernetes.

The software solutions you help create will be instrumental in analyzing and interpreting complex data, driving multi-million-dollar business decisions for our clients.

As our team continues to grow, we are seeking engineers who are passionate about DevOps, infrastructure, security, and release management tooling. In our collaborative environment, engineers work in small, flexible teams where everyone contributes to the design, development, and testing of new features. We prioritize adaptability, allowing each team to adopt the processes that best suit their members and projects, free from rigid organizational structures.

Role:
• Build software that enables teams to deliver the technology and platform that powers a global enterprise application.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate infrastructure solutions into the development lifecycle.
• Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability, ensuring that our infrastructure meets the demands of our growing user base.
• Implement best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement solutions for infrastructure-related issues.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure management, deployment, and monitoring.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Ensure that infrastructure meets security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Implement and maintain security measures such as firewalls, encryption, and access controls.
• Work closely with DevOps, security, and software engineering teams to align infrastructure efforts with overall business goals.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, sharing best practices and technical knowledge.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in infrastructure and cloud computing.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in our infrastructure and drive initiatives to address them.

All About You:
• Extensive experience in infrastructure design, development, and management, with a strong focus on scalability and reliability.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IaaS offerings like OpenStack.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or another similar language.
• Proven track record of optimizing infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience building and administering systems using Kubernetes, Windows, & Linux.
• Experience with compliance frameworks