Lead Engineer - Test Automation, Pipelines and Site Reliability

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

Lead Engineer - Test Automation, Pipelines and Site Reliability

Lead Engineer - Test Automation, Pipelines and Site Reliability

Overview:

Join our mission-driven team building the future of digital commerce on our rapidly scaling Priceless Platform. As an engineering leader, you will leverage your expertise in leading high-visibility projects and hands-on technical knowledge to help us achieve flawless execution. We are experiencing tremendous growth as a premium B2B2C (Business to Business to Consumer) platform delivering world-class experiences to Mastercard’s banking partners globally.
Acquired after being a successful startup, we maintain our drive for innovation and velocity even as part of Mastercard. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, cloud native engineering culture focused on reliability and scale. You will collaborate with talented engineers, guide adoption of technologies like AWS (Amazon Web Services) and ensure operational excellence as our portfolio expands exponentially. If you are an engineering leader passionate about developing people, being hands-on, and enabling business growth through technology, we want to hear from you. Together we will build on our momentum and create the future of digital commerce.

The Role

As a Test Automation and SRE Lead, you will lead projects to enable reliability, security, and velocity on our Priceless Platform. You will help recruit top talents, grow the team and mentor them to establish SRE practices like chaos engineering, observability, and progressive rollouts. Partnering with Quality Engineers, you will write automated tests and shape them. Collaborating with platform engineers, you will guide automation of infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and more. As part of the team, you will help build frameworks to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines across multiple languages and frameworks. With your technical expertise and leadership, you will promote a culture of site reliability, test automation, shared ownership, and transparency. An effective communicator, you will work cross-functionally to translate business needs into appropriate engineering reliability and testing solutions. As we rapidly expand our portfolio, your principles and disciplined approach will help us scale without sacrificing quality.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, innovative engineering culture and make an impact by leading some of our most mission-critical initiatives. We want engineering leaders who can raise our bar for technical and cultural excellence. You will focus on the areas of test automation, CI/CD pipeline creation, and infrastructure automation. This role is based out of our Mastercard location in San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities

• Hands on implementor – in test automation, performance testing, functional automation, test data management. As well as infrastructure automation
• Collaborate with test automation engineers, exemplifying technical expertise and fostering a culture of excellence through knowledge sharing and mentorship.
• Instill a culture of site reliability, shared ownership, and automation across the organization. Lead technical design reviews and code quality processes focused on reliability, security, and testability.
• Drive SRE practices like chaos engineering, progressive rollout, and DevOps collaboration to bolster resilience.
• Architect monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide end-to-end observability.
• Tune performance and scalability via load testing, capacity planning, and architectural improvements.
• Develop playbooks for incident response, disaster recovery, and post-mortem analyses.
• Spearhead test automation frameworks, harnesses, and CI/CD integration for comprehensive test coverage.
• Be a part of on-call support for critical production systems on a rotating basis.
• Continuously improve SRE and t