Sr Principal Software Engineering

About the role

The Architecture & Technology team sets standards for technology at Mastercard and enables 90% of Mastercard’s software engineering staff to focus on delivering customer value by eliminating undifferentiated heavy lifting necessary to align with those standards. Mastercard builds and operates large scale >10 Billion transactions/day, highly distributed systems that require exceptional levels of reliability. A&T is looking for a Sr. Principal, Software Engineering to drive Mastercard’s Technology, Architecture and Design, and Engineering practices. This is an individual contributor role reporting directly to the company’s senior technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs.
• Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products.
• Contribute and lead initiatives to improve the craftsmanship of Software Engineering teams.
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
• Lead projects to prototype and prove concepts for new technologies, application frameworks, and design patterns.
• Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.
• Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
• Mentor and guide software engineers and leads in the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance.
• Engage with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.
• Run Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.
• Mentor and coach Principal Engineers across the enterprise.
• Assist people managers in the talent management process in hiring strong engineering talent and running performance evaluations.

Qualifications

You have current, deep, hands-on software engineering experience – architecture, design, and implementation – on large scale, distributed systems.

You have strong computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, software design, performance analysis, networking, and mathematics for computer science.

Your communications and technical skills make you a recognized technical leader.

You are passionate about new technology and can dive deep to form an objective evaluation and opinion.

Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401k with a best-in-class company match
• deferred compensation for eligible roles
• fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
• eligibility for tuition reimbursement

Pay

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Base salary may vary based on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Pay range for Remote - Colorado: $212,000 - $339,000 USD