Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Pune.

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 Senior Software Engineer

Preferred qualifications

Experience with Golang or Python 3.8 and above for automation, tools development, platform utilities, or API integrations.

Experience building or supporting RESTful APIs, gRPC services, protocol buffers, or data-intensive backend services.

Familiarity with unit testing, test-driven development, automated validation, and release quality gates.

Exposure to DevSecOps practices including secure configuration, vulnerability awareness, access control, and compliance-oriented operations.

Experience contributing to solution design, architecture discussions, and modernization initiatives for highly available platforms.

Ability to identify opportunities for automation, self-healing, reliability improvement, and AI-assisted operational insights.

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.

About Mastercard

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer - DevOps to join the Payments Network group and help support, automate, optimize, and scale critical Mastercard services. The role is ideal for a strong DevOps engineer with hands-on Linux administration, automation, CI/CD, observability, troubleshooting, and performance tuning experience. The engineer will work cross-functionally with development, operations, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure highly available, secure, and resilien