Senior 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

Senior Software Engineer

Overview
This contractor position is on Mastercard’s performance engineering team working closely with the other Authorization development teams. You will have the chance to use and improve a suite of tools to assess transaction time each release. We are looking for engineers that are passionate about performance and development with a constant focus on improving quality.
All About You
• Have you created many scripts to automate and interface with programs (i.e. shell script, TCL, Perl, Python)?
• Do you understand throughput, latency, memory, and CPU utilization?
• Have you spent significant time in Linux environments with some experience administrating?
• Have you developed software before – preferably in C/C++?
• Do you know about different inter-process communications (i.e. shared memory, MQ, Kafka)?
• Do you have experience and prefer working in an Agile environment?
• Have you worked with big, real-time, and distributed systems?
Responsibilities
• Design, configure, and execute performance tests
• Work closely with software development teams to identify risks and anticipate problems to ensure that each release does not negatively impact performance
• Improve the current performance environment with your own code, automation, and onboarding of external tools (i.e. Dynatrace and Splunk)
• Drive performance issues to resolution

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.