Principal Software Engineer Job Listing at Mastercard in Dublin (Job ID R-257832)

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

Principal Software Engineer Overview

• Corporate Security Engineering is a global Mastercard team that designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams.
• The Corporate Security Engineering team develops and supports shared security services to be leveraged across Enterprise by consuming application teams. Our inventory of shared services include cryptography, certificate management, code signing, and key management.
• This role is a technical leader on a team which will be responsible for the component design, development and integration of digital security technologies and solutions to be leveraged by the enterprise.
• This position includes partnering with project managers for implementation of technical solutions, detailing costs and time estimates for initiatives, mentoring junior team members through all phases of the software development lifecycle, and ensuring compliance of audit requirements proactively.
• Candidates must be able to obtain a deep technical understanding of the applications/systems that they are working on and must be willing to dig in and ask challenging questions to make sure that plans are executed efficiently.
• Candidates should have a strong interest in Corporate Security.
• Candidates must demonstrate strong technical leadership and ability to engage in out-of-the-box problem solving.
• Candidate will be responsible for researching alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.

Role:

• Acts as a technical team leader and individual contributor, devoting a substantial portion of their time to hands-on work. Recognized as a subject matter expert and authority in their field, they promote innovation and propel organizational growth through their impactful contributions
• Lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives that span multiple services and programs, collaborating with business and product owners, engineers, and architects to design and implement new services that enable the introduction of innovative products and bundles
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Set priorities, objectives, and drive deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains and engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation and evaluate new solutions for future business platform system requirements.
• Leverages input of partners and personal experience to make thoughtful decisions on technical direction
• Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders, ensure timely accomplishment of technical designs and delivery milestones and liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs

All About You
• You've built your career designing and developing high-performance, globally scalable platforms and key
• Early in your career, you earned a reputation for solving the toughest problems others couldn't crack. As your career advanced, so did the complexity of the challenges you tackled. While you still enjoy rolling up your sleeves, you now thrive on collaborating with others to address monumental challenges that no one can solve alone.
• Designing and crafting exceptional software is one of your greatest passions, but you understand that it's only part of the equation. You value collaborating with SRE, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure architectures are robust, systems are finely tuned, and your teams' code is optimized for its environment.
• Aware that your software serves as critical financial infrastructure for multiple nation-states, you balance hands-on leadership with a focus on ensuring SDLC and governance processes are both effective and responsible.
• Your intelligence and diligence are evident not because you talk about them but because you lead by example. Whether fostering inclusive ideation sessions where every voice is respected or staying in the trenches during production crises to resolve last-minute issues, you set a personal standard that defines the team's culture.

Proficiencies
• Profound experience in Key Management System
• Design and Architecture patterns – APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, messaging systems
• Programming – Java, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, Axon, MQ, and Spring.
• Cloud and DevOps Architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Azure, AWS
• Databases – PostgreSQL
• Tools – Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD

Good To Have
• Experience in working with fast-paced, modern architecture using C++, JNI and HSM.
• Experience with cryptographic primitives, concepts, and protocols
• Experience with confidential computing

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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