Senior Software 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

Software Engineer – Dev Cloud, Platform & Container Enablement

About the Role
Software Engineers in this role focus on enabling developer productivity and platform reliability through strong cloud, container, and internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities. You will design, build, and support Dev Cloud solutions that power secure, scalable, and developer-friendly experiences across the organization. This role blends software engineering, platform engineering, and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on Docker Desktop support, Backstage, AWS, and cloud-native tooling.
All team members are expected to demonstrate Mastercard Way cultural values—own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive—with a relentless focus on developer experience and customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate Dev Cloud capabilities that enable engineers to develop, test, and deploy software efficiently and securely.
Own and support Docker Desktop and container-based development workflows, including troubleshooting developer issues and improving local-to-cloud parity.
Build and extend Backstage as an internal developer platform, including software templates, plugins, golden paths, and service catalogs.
Develop and maintain cloud-native services and automation on AWS, leveraging managed services and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Partner with application teams to onboard services to Dev Cloud and Backstage, improving consistency, discoverability, and operational readiness.
Automate and simplify developer workflows across build, test, deploy, and runtime operations.
Introduce new tools, patterns, and architectures aligned with enterprise engineering standards.
Drive reliability, observability, and security best practices across platform services.
Collaborate cross-functionally with security, infrastructure, and application teams to resolve complex, multi-service issues.
Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and platform excellence.
All about you-Technical Focus Areas

Dev Cloud & Platform Engineering: Internal platforms, self-service capabilities, golden paths, and developer experience optimization.
Containers & Local Development: Docker Desktop, container orchestration concepts, and developer tooling support.
Backstage: Software catalogs, templates, plugins, integrations, and adoption strategies.
Cloud (AWS): Core AWS services, IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and cost-aware design.
Automation & IaC: CI/CD, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code to enable repeatable, secure environments.
Observability & Operations: Logging, metrics, tracing, and operational readiness in cloud-native environments.

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.