Director, Software Engineering

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
Director, Software Engineering
Overview
MSBX (Mastercard Secure Build Experience) is driving the next generation of Mastercard's software engineers experience for more than 11,000 engineers across the globe. Our mission is to deliver a best in class, highly resilient ecosystem of products and services that simply work-so developers can focus on delivering customer value, not fighting tools. MSBX sets the foundation for frictionless, secure, and scalable software delivery across the enterprise.
DevFlow powers this transformation by modernizing the CI/CD ecosystem, retiring legacy platforms, and enabling cloud native, composable, and automated workflows. DevFlow ensures that every engineering team benefits from an opinionated, resilient, enterprise grade platform that accelerates delivery while maintaining Mastercard's highest standards of security and compliance.
Role• Lead a team of 8-12 engineers to deliver GitHub SCM governance, repo architecture, permissions models, and branch protection standards. • Drive enterprise GitHub Actions workflows and runner strategies that provide scalable, resilient CI/CD. • Advance GitHub Advanced Security adoption (CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning) and embed secure by default patterns into pipelines. • Champion GitHub Copilot and AI assisted engineering, establishing best practices and measurable productivity gains. • Develop and maintain composable Groovy based Jenkins pipelines integrated tightly with GitHub SCM and Actions. • Automate CI/CD guardrails to enforce security, compliance, and quality across GitHub and Jenkins. • Model hands on engineering excellence and modern CI/CD patterns for the team and broader community. • Mentor and grow engineers, raising capability in GitHub workflows, automation, and pipeline engineering. • Identify reuse and efficiency opportunities to streamline developer experience and reduce friction. • Partner with product and stakeholders to define roadmaps and prioritize high impact work. • Champion Mastercard engineering principles across GitHub and CI/CD platforms. • Contribute to engineering guilds and communities to influence standards and share best practices. • Define and track key platform metrics measuring reliability, adoption, and developer productivity.
All About You• 12+ years of senior software engineering experience, with 5+ years of technical leadership guiding teams of 8-12 engineers.• Deep software engineering expertise, with strong fundamentals in architecture, design patterns, reliability, automation, and CI/CD best practices.• Hands-on experience with GitHub SCM, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, and enterprise-scale CI/CD workflows.• Strong knowledge of Groovy-based Jenkins pipelines, reusable components, and composable pipeline design.• SRE-oriented mindset, building systems that are resilient, observable, automated, and scalable across large engineering organizations.• Skilled in automation, observability, and infrastructure/tooling that improves developer experience and platform reliability.• Proficient in API/web service design and integration patterns.• Experienced modernizing legacy tooling and pipelines, driving migrations toward cloud-native, secure, best in class developer platforms.• Excellent communicator, able to simplify complex topics and influence alignment across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.• Strong mentor and technical coach, leveraging pairing, reviews, and hands-on leadership to grow engineering capability.• Highly knowledgeable in SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and high-velocity delivery models, with a track record of improving engineering productivity and flow.• Deep understanding of code quality, performance engineering, and developer productivity metrics (e.g., PR cycle time, code churn, commit patterns).• Proficient in multiple programming languages, such as Java, C#, or similar modern languages.• Experience with AWS and Azure services, IAM controls, automation patterns, and cloud security.• Strong understanding of Kubernetes (upstream or managed) and containerized, ephemeral workload design.• Familiarity with cloud-native observability stacks and infrastructure automation approaches.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $170,000 - $281,000 USD