Software Engineer II – Site Reliability Focus

About the role

Mastercard is looking for a Software Engineer II to join its Authentication team. The role focuses on site reliability, supporting and evolving authentication platforms that process billions of transactions daily.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, and shell scripting.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot services across hybrid environments including AWS (EKS/Kubernetes), on‑premise clouds, and traditional infrastructure.
• Collaborate with platform teams to improve environment stability, scalability, and developer experience.
• Implement observability and reliability improvements following SRE best practices.
• Participate in an Agile Scrum team, working with product owners, analysts, and developers to define user stories.
• Produce design documentation according to Mastercard standards.

Required profile

• Strong troubleshooting skills in Linux‑based production environments.
• Experience with multi‑environment setups (dev, test, staging, production) and governance.
• Passion for Agile development and ability to work in SAFe or Scrum frameworks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.

Required skills

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, shell scripting.
• Monitoring and logging: Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry.
• Build tools: Maven, Gradle.
• Configuration management: Chef or equivalent.
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure.
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS).
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Programming: Java JDK 8+, JUnit.
• Web frameworks: Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot.
• Databases and messaging: SQL, multi‑threading, message queuing systems, Business Rules Management Systems.