Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard is hiring a Lead Software Engineer in Navi Mumbai.

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop scalable, highly available, and resilient solutions running in AWS.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and automation frameworks.
• Drive Kubernetes platform engineering initiatives, including cluster architecture, upgrades, performance optimization, observability, and operational governance.
• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines that enable secure and efficient software delivery.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency through automation and engineering best practices.
• Partner with application teams to define platform standards and accelerate adoption of cloud-native technologies.
• Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for strategic engineering initiatives.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement efforts.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve platform capabilities and developer experience.
• Contribute to engineering standards, operational runbooks, security controls, and governance processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience designing and operating production workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments.
• Experience developing automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar programming languages.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, routing, and connectivity architectures.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, identity management, and access governance.
• Experience supporting production systems and participating in operational on-call processes.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale multi-account AWS environments.
• Experience with EKS, Karpenter, service mesh, GitOps, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Experience with container security, runtime protection, and Kubernetes security controls.
• Experience implementing observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or similar technologies.
• Experience with high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity architectures.
• Experience supporting PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or other regulated environments.
• Experience designing self-service developer platforms and internal engineering tools.
• Previous technical leadership experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives.

Technology Stack You do not need experience with every technology listed below, but familiarity with many of them will help you succeed in this role. Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Route 53
• VPC

About Mastercard

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