Principal Software Engineer
Mastercard (company site, opens in a new tab)PuneOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–65 LPA
Posted 15h ago
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About This Role
- Lead architecture and design of large-scale, distributed payment systems processing millions to billions of transactions.
- Drive technology strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps across multiple products and business domains.
- Own and improve customer experience, cost-benefit, and engineering patterns for shared libraries and enterprise-wide services.
Minimum Requirements
- Proven experience designing and developing highly available, fault-tolerant, geographically distributed systems at massive scale with near-zero downtime.
- Expertise in Java programming (preferred) and familiarity with JVM internals, Layer 7 protocols (HTTP/REST/gRPC), messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Solace), Kubernetes, microservices, and databases (SQL/NoSQL/NewSQL).
- Understanding of system behavior across application, network, storage, and hardware layers including networking protocols like TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing.
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Deep expertise in scalable distributed systems architecture and performance optimization within financial or payment ecosystems.
- Experienced in leading cross-functional initiatives influencing multiple products and engineering domains with an ability to balance trade-offs among scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and cost.
- Comfortable in high-complexity environments requiring public speaking, technical thought leadership, and cross-team collaboration to drive enterprise-wide solutions.