
Senior Software Engineer
Role summary
Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their AWS Platform Engineering Team. This role is crucial for designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform on AWS. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal platform performance, cost efficiency, and adherence to best practices. Responsibilities include developing and managing cloud infrastructure using IaC, implementing secure connectivity and access controls, and improving the AWS platform lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of AWS cloud engineering experience, strong OOP skills, and expertise in DevOps practices and system design.
### Who you are
- The ideal candidate is expected to have a strong understanding of AWS services, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation and to focus on enabling application teams to deliver value rapidly and securely
- 3+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or similar roles
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and experience applying them in languages like Python, TypeScript, and Java
- Fluent in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- Experience with CI/CD tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, BitBucket/GitHub, Artifactory, Sonarqube, etc
- Strong knowledge of the best practices around Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting solutions
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale systems
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks
- Systematic problem-solving approach, with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
- Knowledge of security best practices and frameworks
### What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join Mastercard's AWS Platform Engineering Team
- This role is critical in designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform on AWS
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal platform performance, cost efficiency, and alignment with best practices
- Design, implement, and maintain a scalable multi-account AWS platform, leveraging services like AWS Organizations, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, MSK, VPC, IAM, etc
- Develop and manage Cloud infrastructure through IaaC
- Manage secure connectivity using technologies like AWS PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect
- Implement and maintain secure access controls and guardrails using AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and IAM
- Engage and improve the lifecycle of the AWS platform and services -- from development to deployment, operation, and refinement
- Develop Scalable and Reliable Systems through Automations
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortem
- Ability to lead architecture discussions, conduct code reviews, and foster a collaborative engineering culture
### Benefits
- Gym membership
- Pension plan
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Sample Mastercard interview questions
- 1
Design a load balancer
system designmedium - 2
Design a system that can scale to millions of users, ensuring reliability and robust rollback mechanisms.
system designaverage - 3
Design a Top-K Recommendation System
system designhard - 4
Design a CI/CD pipeline.
system designaverage - 5
Describe the basics of AWS Lambda.
technicaldifficult
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