Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard, you will play a crucial role in leading the architecture and design of Mastercard's Core Payment Systems, a globally distributed financial services platform. Your responsibilities will include defining software requirements, developing solutions, and ensuring adherence to standards and best practices. Here is a breakdown of your key responsibilities: - System Architecture & Design: - Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance edge systems for financial transaction routing. - Design distributed systems capable of handling persistent TCP connections, ISO message parsing, transformation, validation, and routing. - Define and evolve the platforms architecture using C++, Java, Golang, Axon, and gRPC. - Platform Engineering: - Lead the development of core routing logic, timers, retries, and business logic integration. - Ensure seamless integration with Mastercards backend systems via NGFT, gRPC, Axon. - Oversee containerization and deployment strategies across cloud and customer data centers. - Fleet Management: - Design and implement a robust fleet management system for global deployments. - Ensure observability, operability, and lifecycle management of edge nodes. - Security & Compliance: - Collaborate with security teams to integrate the platform with Mastercards security subsystems. - Ensure compliance with financial regulations and data protection standards. - Cloud & DevOps: - Work closely with infrastructure teams to define deployment pipelines, connectivity, and operational tooling. - Drive automation, CI/CD, and configuration-as-code and infrastructure-as-code practices. - Cross-functional Leadership: - Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to align architecture with business goals. - Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in distributed systems, cloud-native development, and secure coding. For this role, you are required to have: - Experience in software architecture, distributed systems, and edge computing. - Proficiency in C++, Golang, gRPC, Axon, NGFT, and TCP/IP networking. - Experience with financial messaging standards such as ISO8583 and ISO20022. - Proven track record in designing and operating Kubernetes-based platforms at scale. - Knowledge of security architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, and fleet management. - Strong communication and leadership skills. In addition, you should have experience in financial services or payment systems and be familiar with PCI-DSS and other financial compliance frameworks. Please note that Mastercard offers US Salary Ranges and benefits which can be accessed through People Place under the Compensation tab and the Benefits tab respectively. As a Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard, you will play a crucial role in leading the architecture and design of Mastercard's Core Payment Systems, a globally distributed financial services platform. Your responsibilities will include defining software requirements, developing solutions, and ensuring adherence to standards and best practices. Here is a breakdown of your key responsibilities: - System Architecture & Design: - Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance edge systems for financial transaction routing. - Design distributed systems capable of handling persistent TCP connections, ISO message parsing, transformation, validation, and routing. - Define and evolve the platforms architecture using C++, Java, Golang, Axon, and gRPC. - Platform Engineering: - Lead the development of core routing logic, timers, retries, and business logic integration. - Ensure seamless integration with Mastercards backend systems via NGFT, gRPC, Axon. - Oversee containerization and deployment strategies across cloud and customer data centers. - Fleet Management: - Design and implement a robust fleet management system for global deployments. - Ensure observability, operability, and lifecycle management of edge nodes. - Security & Compliance: - Collaborate with security teams to integrate the platform with Mastercards security subsystems. - Ensure compliance with financial regulations and data protection standards. - Cloud & DevOps: - Work closely with infrastructure teams to define deployment pipelines, connectivity, and operational tooling. - Drive automation, CI/CD, and configuration-as-code and infrastructure-as-code practices. - Cross-functional Leadership: - Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to align architecture with business goals. - Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in distributed systems, cloud-native development, and secure coding. For this role, you are required to have: - Experience in software architecture, distributed systems, and edge computing. - Proficiency in C++, Golang, gRPC, Axon, NGFT, and TCP/IP networking. - Experience with financial messaging standards such as ISO8583 and ISO20022. - Proven track recor