Lead Software Engineer F/T

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

Lead Software Engineer F/T

Overview
Lead a team of site reliability engineers support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, performance engineering, chaos testing, capacity planning, launch reviews and implementation of technical solutions.

Role
• Maintain, increase, and communicate service metrics once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, performance and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms, like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability, velocity and recommend performance tuning
approaches.
• Review production incidents to identify and drive solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Proactively create and maintain solution and technology roadmaps.
• Build, manage and maintain robust dashboards reflecting system health.
• Software performance analysis and bottleneck identification, scaling, automation experience

About You
• Position requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Systems, Engineering or related and seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or as a Programmer Analyst, System Test Engineer, Software Engineer, Performance Engineer, or related.
• Qualifying experience must include at least five (5) years with each of the following: SYSTEMS DESIGN AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE; SQL; HTML/XHTML; JSON/XML; ORACLE/MYSQL/POSTGRESQL; APACHE TOMCAT/TOMCAT; WINDOWS/LINUX; SPLUNK OR DATADOG OR PROMETHEUS/GRAFANA; DYNATRACE OR APM TOOLS; JENKINS OR CI/CD TOOLS; ALM TOOLS; REST; BLAZEMETER OR LOADRUNNER OR GATLING.
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience.
• Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies.
• To apply, please click the “Apply for job” link above, or send resume to recruiter Roxy Rhinehart, Roxy.Rhinehart@mastercard.com, 2200 Mastercard Blvd, O’Fallon, MO, 63368. Reference MC207-2025.

Incentives offered through MasterCard’s Employee Referral Program Apply to this position. For more information, please visit our Employee Referral Site or see employee handbook.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $122,000 - $207,000 USD