Principal Software Engineer

Overview The Builders Hub Team, part of the Mastercard Software Builders Experience program, owns and drives developer experience for the company. The team has a unique opportunity to create a unified internal developer portal supporting and helping to drive a new internal developer platform (IDP). This portal and platform will assist all development teams across Mastercard and its M&A's, with golden paths and automation that reduces toil and cognitive load for developers.

The Builders Hub team has a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of an evolving landscape of technology at Mastercard and help shape the future of development, deployment and more!

Role - Lead the design and Implementation of the Internal Developer Portal and Platform - Drive patterns and standards for Internal Developer Platform integration and automation - Create mechanisms to ensure alignment to those standards and best practices In an automated fashion - Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence - Mentor and guide software engineers and lead the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance - Identify opportunities for reuse and Improved efficiency - Engage with IT and Business partners, product owners and stakeholders to create meaningful roadmaps to ensure the most Important work Is prioritized - Champion all Mastercard engineering principles - Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology - Help Identify and drive meaningful behavior changing metrics

All About You - 12+ Years of lead software engineering experience - Deep, applied knowledge of designing, Implementing and supporting internal development platforms in a multi cloud environment - Deep understanding of cloud providers including AWS and Azure (Services, Access controls, Integration and Automation....etc) - Solid understanding of cloud security In highly regulated market segments and countries. - Solid experience with site reliability engineering mindset and creating solutions that are resilient, supportable and observable at all layers of the stack - Deep understanding of automation using various tools - Deep understanding of observability In a cloud environment - Solid understanding of pure Kubernetes and cloud provider based managed services Kubernetes - Proficient in web service design, standards, best practices and Implementation - Deep understanding of containerization and designing ephemeral solutions - Proven track record of delivering solutions to complex, multi-domain environments - Ability to articulate complex designs and solutions to people with varying levels of technical aptitude - Experienced in guiding less experienced engineers with the use of pair programming, code reviews, design reviews, etc. - Deep knowledge in migration from legacy technologies and mindset to the best In class solutions for the cloud - Self-Driven and able to navigate complex organizational environments - Strong communication skills both written and verbal - Strong collaboration skills and ability to gain alignment / buy-in on any solutions that will require cross functional support - Strong understanding of different project management methodologies Including waterfall and Agile/Scrum - Strong understanding of all phases of the SDLC process from design to deployment. - Enthusiastically engages engineers across technology organizations to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services with experience leading open-source development efforts - Leads by example in establishing enterprise-wide standards for application integration and identifies/ anticipates future requirements to support business needs - Champions performance engineering practices to ensure that performance meets (or exceeds) expectations; educates stakeholders on performance testing processes, methodology, performance and scalability metrics, capacity modeling techniques, and testing approaches - Understands software development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, commits/story) and help teams to remove blockers and continuously improve code velocity, quality, and release frequency - Experienced with NodeJS, Java, C# and other programming languages