Lead Software Engineer

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer

Overview
Purpose of this team is to provide Observability services to Mastercard’s Customer Connectivity Org. This group designs and implements various on-prem and off-prem cloud Observability – O11Y – systems – such as event-metric translators, Traces, Time series Databases, metric transport agents and transports, Ingestion mechanisms, and graphical front ends to Observability data. Deep knowledge of modern software architectures and how to bring Observability patterns into these architectures to provide an end-to-end visibility is a critical function of this team.

• Utilize vendor products and custom built solutions to enable business opportunities in a global marketplace.
• Have you ever wonder or already cracked the puzzle of observe everything – even to the atomic CPU instructions and still maintain a manageable data store ?
• Have you ever worked with or wanted to work with Observability standards and Protocols?
• Have you ever built or wanted to build Managed Observability Systems on top of technologies such as Promethues, Mimir,Thanos, Grafana, Open Telemetry, Honeycomb etc?
• Have you built any highly available Java stack that is highly fault tolerant with over 5 nines and co-processing from multiple geos?
• Have you have ever supported critical infrastructure for a global company?
• Do you want to be a part of a collaborative environment?
Role
• Participate in defining system requirements, producing designs and building application systems based on business requirements.
• Provide second level technical support for production systems on a rotational basis.
• Design, implement and review complex applications, integrations across multiple systems
• Troubleshoot problems in production systems and devise long term strategy to eliminate failure points
All About You
• Experience in Java JEE technologies as well as database integration.
• Competent with object oriented design and development techniques (design patterns, UML).
• Comfortable with UNIX/Linux command line interface; Python and Shell scripting skills are very valuable
• Deep understanding of Observability as an enterprise function
• Hands on with various Java libraries that provide metric logging and trace logging – such as micrometer, Otel
• Experience in Enterprise Application Framework and Tools – Spring, Hibernate, Apache Commons.
• Familiar with cloud native architectures. Exposure to Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a big plus
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Recent experience using X509 certificates, SSH keys and PGP encryption. Knowledge of JCA/JCE is a plus.
• JWT, SAML, SSO and Java code integration to various IAM technologies and tools is a must
• Experience in working with stakeholders across geographies.
• Hands on with Agile and lean software practices and familiar with Agile work management tools such as JIRA, ALM, Aha!, Confluence

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.