Principal 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

Principal 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.
Overview
Be part of the Decision Management Program, which creates services for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity in real-time. Our patented platform processes billions of transactions per month, in milliseconds, using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability. Additionally, web applications and web services for managing fraud solutions round out the critical platform capabilities.
Role
This Principal Performance Architect role will be responsible for evolving the performance and availability engineering of the platform, as well as providing consultation to the development engineers to help design solutions that maximize performance and capacity of our platform. This is a highly technical role that requires a deep understanding of hardware/infrastructure, Linux operating systems, and how software is designed and tuned to maximize these layers to deliver the best performance. This position will help lead new initiatives within the Decision Management organization around the next generation of infrastructure, Container-as-a-Service (CaaS), observability, and items related to the overall resilience and availability of our platform.
This architect role will partner with solution architects, software engineers, and other team roles to assess the platform’s needs, help design new capabilities, establish architectural roadmaps, design and run tests/proof-of-concepts, help troubleshoot problems, identify risks, and make recommendations. A successful candidate will ensure potential performance and availability challenges are proactively identified, recommendations implemented, and that the systems’ capacity and availability exceed requirements while ensuring the platform achieves business results.
All About You
• The ideal candidate for this position should possess intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience in the following areas:
• Architecting and operating mission critical, high volume, low latency services onto elastic infrastructure ranging from public cloud to private datacenters
• Integrating AI, Business Rules and in-memory Distributed Grid technologies to produce the high performance and flexible decisioning systems required to protect Mastercard customers and offer them the best possible payment experience
• Real-time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Flink, NIFI, AWS Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics
• Architecting high performance application data services against data stores with very large amounts of data
• Points of failure analysis and architect ‘always-on’ solutions by building resiliency architecture allowing seamless failovers between availability zones.
• Engaging with engineers at all levels across the engineering organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services.
• Passionate about solving complex performance and availability problems
• A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, and Oracle
• Performance tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Dynatrace, software profilers, Splunk, etc.
• Capacity modeling/planning processes and tools
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an
audience at all levels within an organization.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
Vancouver Pay Range
148,000.00 - 237,000.00 CAD Annual

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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.