Senior Software Engineer (Performance Engineer)

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 (Performance Engineer)

Overview
Be part of the AI & DPE rogram, which creates services for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity in real-time. Our patented platform processes billions of transactions per month, in milliseconds, using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability. Additionally, web applications and web services for managing fraud solutions round out the critical platform capabilities.
Role
This Senior Performance role will be responsible for the performance and availability engineering for the platform, along with helping to build an engineering practice that empathizes doing performance engineering work earlier in the delivery lifecycle.
This role will partner with solution architects, software engineers, and other team roles to assess the platform’s needs, help design new capabilities, design and run tests, help troubleshoot problems, identify risks, and make recommendations. A successful candidate will ensure potential performance and availability challenges are proactively identified, recommendations implemented, and that the systems’ capacity and availability exceed requirements while ensuring the platform achieves business results.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should possess intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience in the following areas:
• Application architecture
• High performance and highly scalable transaction processing systems
• Passionate about solving complex performance and availability problems
• A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, and Oracle
• Performance tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Dynatrace, software profilers, Splunk, etc.
• Capacity modeling/planning processes and tools
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an
audience at all levels within an organization.
• Experience with automation tools like Jenkins.
• 8+ years of experience in Performance Testing/Engineering.
• Real-time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Flink,Nifi
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.