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 Site Reliability Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
At Mastercard technology, we work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable. And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day. Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.
About the Role
The Business Operations team is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer.
The role of Business Operations Organization is to be the production readiness steward for Mastercard products. As a Business Operations SRE, we are responsible for ensuring that our platform is stable and healthy. We break down barriers to run our products by fostering developer run ownership and empowering developers to build resilient products. We support our developers during the application build phase in software run principals that includes operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring that leads to fault-tolerant, scalable products. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an agile and learning culture. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications, supporting essential services that power Mastercard's global operations. As a thought leader in your field, you will bring technical expertise, a passion for automation, and the ability to mentor. We support daily operations with a hyper focus on triage, root cause by understanding the business impact of our products and subsequently performing blameless post-mortems. The goal of every Business Operations team is to engage early in the development lifecycle to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience and increase the overall value of supported applications. Business Operations teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments. Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle.
Team Specific Skills:
It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas, but a Site Reliability
engineer will spend time throughout their career with all of these aspects of the role:
- Operational Readiness Architect:
o Serve as the primary contact responsible for the overall application health,
performance, and capacity
o Support services before they go live through activities such as system design
consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
o Partner with the development and product team of a new application to establish
the right monitoring and alerting strategy and create the framework to achieve zero
downtime during deployment.
- Site Reliability Engineering:
o Performs operability and resilience design and implements and maintains highly
reliable and scalable infrastructure.
o Perform root cause analysis of incidents and collaborate with development teams to
resolve issues.
o Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in SRE and cloud computing.
o Participate in on-call rotations and be available to respond to critical incidents.
o Complete end-to-end run ownership of the product.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems while taking a
holistic approach to problem solving and optimizing time to recover.
o Automate data-driven alerts to proactively escalate issues. Work with development
teams to establish SLOs and improve reliability.
o Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. o Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher
environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in
DevOps automation and best practices.
o Performs operational and resilience Design and implements solutions for capacity
planning and performance optimization.
o Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention
o Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development
teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
Role qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have experience in many of these areas:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or
mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, practices along with configuration management.
- Experience in operational and resilience designing, building, and operating large-scale,
distributed systems.
- Appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be
curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and
prepare for future growth.
- Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software
design.
- Systematic problem-solving approach, analytical, coupled with strong communication skills
and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Interest in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
- A passion for observability, automation and continuous improvement.
- Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a
member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
- Ability to balance doing things right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and pragmatic, while
working towards improving the long-term health of the system.
- Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that expected system
behaviour is understood and monitoring exists to detect anomalies.
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.
