Senior Database Engineer

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 Database Engineer

The database engineering team is looking for a Senior Database Engineer to help set direction for MasterCard’s use and best practices for our application database solutions. You will work with application teams to implement sound RDMS data solutions that follow industry best practices and methods.

You will also be responsible for migrating existing databases to AWS. You will design, automate, and manage databases as a service leveraging deep experience in Open-Source database technologies like MySQL, Aurora, and other Cloud Native database technologies. 
 


Role
• Optimize and maintain legacy systems in MySQL & MongoDB
• Implement differing approaches to data management & administration in AWS
• Partner with dev teams to create DevSecOps constructed databases in AWS
• Develop plans to migrate legacy on-premises databases into AWS data stores
• Engineer various database services across multiple AWS services and regions
• Be THE escalation point for solving database usage issues and malfunction

All About You
• Deep experience with database engineering
• Experience sharding, clustering, HA, scaling, monitoring, deploying, tuning, etc.
• Experience being the escalation point for any and all DBE/DBA issues
• Sr. experience in cloud databases in production, development, and QA environments

Work Conditions
Rotational pager for Production Support

Tech Stack
AWS, Aurora MySQL, MongoDB

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application 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.

Corporate Security Responsibility

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.