Lead Performance Engineer (JAVA, APM, Jmeter)

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

Lead Performance Engineer (JAVA, APM, Jmeter)

Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join Mastercard and contribute to improving the response time for new applications that support the Authorization payment network. This position is on the performance engineering team that partner with development teams on optimization and testing. We are looking for an experienced engineer that is passionate about performance with a constant focus on improving system quality.
Responsibilities
• Design, configure, and execute performance tests and drive resolution of failures
• Create performance measurements such as requests per second, P95 and P99 response latency, query performance, concurrency, and system utilization
• Dig into Java code, databases, middleware, and vendor software to identify performance bottlenecks and resolve them
• Improve the performance environment with your own code, automation, and external tools
• Apply technical ability to coach and develop junior engineers
• Deliver department and external presentations sharing results with stakeholders
All About You
• Strong software engineering experience writing applications using Java Spring Boot framework
• Strong experience debugging performance issues with APM tools (i.e. Dynatrace, Splunk, Jprofiler, and JMH)
• Strong experience optimizing DB queries in PostgreSQL and Oracle
• Strong experience writing jMeter scripts and running in load generation tools (i.e. BlazeMeter)
• Experience with Payments industry (i.e. ISO 8583 messaging, 4-party model, and payment applications)
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Time/project management, workload prioritization, knowledge sharing and a passion to learn/take on challenges is a must
• Self-motivated demonstrating strong organizational and listening skills; and very detail oriented with the ability to carry out assigned tasks with minimal supervision
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and prepare for future growth
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team

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.