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 Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

The Identity Solutions – ‘Cloud Infrastructure - Edge’ team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help support, design, and build our highly available and scalable AWS Cloud infrastructure which our products are built on. The team builds infrastructure for Engineering projects, extends our platform for the future, and improves the availability and performance of our applications. This position also designs, develops systems, automation, and tools to help make it easier for Engineering teams to deploy services in a fast, automated and reliable fashion. Ange depending on the team you work on. The Identity Solutions program within the Services group works to prevent fraud by securing a user’s identity through their devices, identity information, and usage patterns such as passive Biometrics. Comprised of best-in-class solutions from Ekata (a Mastercard company), we use complex machine learning, combined with device, identity, and transaction information from billions of transactions to reduce user friction to enable highly secure real time transactions. Role • Provide technical leadership and accountability within a geographically diverse team, serving as a subject matter expert (SME) while mentoring and developing junior team members. • Design, build, scale, and optimize infrastructure across cloud environments, ensuring solutions are highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable. • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Argo CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager, and related DevOps technologies. • Design and implement secure, highly available AWS environments, with strong expertise across core AWS services including compute, IAM, databases, caching, troubleshooting, and operational support. • Build, manage, and scale Kubernetes (EKS) environments, including cluster architecture, deployment, service mesh, load balancing, and performance optimization to maximize availability, response time, and uptime. • Develop and enhance monitoring and observability solutions, primarily using Prometheus, to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure, security, and performance issues while maintaining comprehensive technical documentation. • Partner with engineering and technology teams to troubleshoot complex issues, improve system performance, participate in on-call rotations, and develop automation and custom tooling using Go, Python, Rust, and Bash while promoting industry-standard coding and engineering practices. All About You • Demonstrated technical leadership and project leadership experience, with a strong track record of collaborating effectively across geographically distributed teams. • Bachelor’s