Principal Software Engineer

Job Title:

Principal Software Engineer - Java, Edge, Security models, TLS certificate

Overview:

Job Description: Principal Software Engineer

• The position has a unique opportunity to drive Mastercard's API Edge design, including security models, routing, traffic control, API management and other related work.

• Responsible for overall architecture of Mastercard's API Gateway. Leading, programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of Mastercard's API Gateway in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes and best practices.

• Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.

• Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.

• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives in open source for the business needs.

• Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit and Regulatory Requirements. Adhere to Mastercard security standards, change management and quality controls, enabling automations where required.

• Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics that help billing and capacity planning.

• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers in, and beyond, your team.

• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency by optimizations and automations.

Role

Essential responsibilities of the position:

• Architecture and design of software solutions

• Technical solution & application architecture & design

• Development, review & ownership of architecture & design artifacts (SAD, API Specification etc.)

• Actively find ways (new technologies, tools, frameworks) to improve software solutions

• Work with Product Management and Engineering to translate product use cases and requirements to industry-leading design, architecture and implementations. Set architectural direction by grooming and prioritizing architectural stories related to baselining software stack, realization of non-functional requirement etc. and critical domain stories. Influence the product owner to balance the business and technical priorities and the value of the architecture work.

• Execute and own the baseline architecture implementations and design activities collaborating with Sr. Engineer & Engineering Team.

• Regularly communicate with management about risk analysis and design tradeoffs.

• Strong communication skills, with an ability to express and design ideas to a development team

Skills

• Understanding of Nginx or Nginx+ configurations is highly desirable.

• Understanding of TLS/SSL certificates, trust store and Certificate Authority is highly desirable

• Experience with management of applications deployed across the multiple geographic locations

• Experience in popular security Models, including OAuth1.0a, OAuth2.0 and Mutual TLS.

• Web services & API management experience

• Software development, design & architecture experience in enterprise grade software solutions.

• Programming & Scripting Languages (2 or more of Java, Groovy, C, JavaScript, Python, lua or Shell)

• Ability to operate effectively independently

• Strong communication skill (Written and Oral)

• Bachelor engineering or technology in Computer Science, Engineering or IT required. Master's degree in related discipline preferredTo find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.

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