Mastercard
Financial Services
SiteReliabilityEngineerII
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“Site Reliability Engineer II at Mastercard. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Payment platforms, Automation, Observability. Own reliability of BizOps-owned services. Ensure adherence to SLIs”
What You'll Achieve.
Reduce Mean Time To Detect; Reduce Mean Time To Resolve
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving; Debugging; Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
On-call rotations, 24x7 production support
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Equivalent practical experience, hands-on experience in Linux/Unix, SQL experience, programming/scripting experience, Solid understanding of distributed systems, Solid understanding of APIs, Solid understanding of networking, Solid understanding of system design, Proven ability to debug complex issues, Proven ability to resolve complex issues, Experience managing high-availability systems, analytical skills, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, Ability to independently own services, Ability to drive outcomes
Nice to Have
Experience supporting financial services, Experience supporting regulated environments, Hands-on experience with observability platforms, Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Experience with infrastructure-as-code, Experience with release automation, Cloud platforms exposure, Containers exposure, Platform services exposure, Experience implementing SRE concepts, Prior experience in on-call rotations, Prior experience in 24x7 production support
What You'll Do.
Own reliability of BizOps-owned services
Ensure adherence to SLIs
Ensure adherence to SLOs
Ensure adherence to error budgets
Lead major incident response
Perform advanced triage
Perform impact assessment
Drive blameless root cause analysis
Ensure systemic fixes
Eliminate recurring issues
Improve overall resilience
Design observability frameworks
Enhance observability frameworks
Enable early detection
Design automation solutions
Implement automation solutions
Reduce manual effort (toil)
Implement self-healing mechanisms
Implement intelligent alerting systems
Participate in release planning
Participate in release execution
Ensure deployments meet production readiness
Assess system performance
Improve system performance
Assess system scalability
Improve system scalability
Assess system capacity
Improve system capacity
Identify recurring incidents
Identify architectural limitations
Identify operational inefficiencies
Drive systemic reliability improvements
Embed SRE practices early
Mentor junior engineers
Promote SRE principles
Promote coding practices
Promote operational excellence
Ensure adherence to standards
Ensure adherence to audit requirements
Ensure adherence to regulatory compliance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborating with product teams; Collaborating with platform teams; Collaborating with engineering teams; Partner to Engineering teams; Partner to Product teams; Partner to Infrastructure teams; Partner to Platform teams
Communication Scope
Articulate technical issues; Articulate reliability risks
Process & Methodology
Release planning, Release execution
Full Job Description
**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** ### Site Reliability Engineer II ### As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) II, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of mission‑critical payment platforms within Mastercard’s Treasury Services and the broader TECH organization. You are expected to operate with strong technical ownership, engineering judgment, and accountability, contributing not only to operational excellence but also to system resilience, automation, and reliability engineering practices. Business Operations is driving Mastercard’s SRE transformation, embedding principles of reliability engineering, observability, automation, and reduced operational toil across the application lifecycle. In this role, you will champion SRE best practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and reliability-driven development, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating closely with product, platform, and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities Reliability & Service Ownership Own the end‑to‑end reliability and operational health of BizOps‑owned services across production and non‑production environments, ensuring adherence to defined SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Incident Management & Resilience Engineering Lead major incident response, including advanced triage, impact assessment, and driving blameless root cause analysis (RCA). Ensure systemic fixes via corrective and preventive actions to eliminat
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