Mastercard
Financial Services
SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer
“Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Mastercard. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Production Operations, System Reliability. Drive reliability-focused design. Partner with engineering teams”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Years of professional experience operating distributed systems at scale in production, Kubernetes and containerized environments expertise, Observability (metrics, logging, tracing) expertise, Spring Boot and/or Golang ecosystems expertise, Hands-on across application, infrastructure, and release pipelines, Demonstrated ownership of service reliability, Demonstrated incident response, Demonstrated operational strategy, Ability to influence system design through technical leadership, Ability to influence system design with data-driven decisions, Pragmatic mindset balancing automation, trade-offs, and system evolution, Experience navigating enterprise environments, Experience maintaining delivery velocity, Leverages AI tools to accelerate design, coding, and testing, Leverages AI tools to improve code quality and operational outcomes, Integrates AI into workflows: Architecture reviews, code generation, testing, and documentation, Applies judgment in production-critical, low-latency environments
Nice to Have
Spring Boot and/or Golang services expertise, AWS or equivalent cloud platforms expertise
What You'll Do.
Drive reliability-focused design
Partner with engineering teams
Partner with platform teams
Lead architecture reviews
Lead launch readiness reviews
Perform capacity planning
Perform failure-mode analysis
Perform risk analysis
Define non-functional requirements
Enforce non-functional requirements
Own production reliability
Act as incident commander
Lead blameless post-mortems
Identify operational risk
Reduce operational risk
Drive automation-first operations
Scale systems sustainably
Enhance CI/CD pipelines
Implement deployment gating
Implement deployment validation
Identify performance bottlenecks
Identify reliability bottlenecks
Resolve performance bottlenecks
Resolve reliability bottlenecks
Improve developer experience
Provide operational tooling
Implement best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner across engineering; Partner across platform teams
Process & Methodology
Capacity planning, Risk analysis
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