Lead Software Engineer (Java, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Python and Shell )

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 Lead Software Engineer (Java, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Python and Shell ) Who is Mastercard Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Organizational Overview Mastercard’s Reactive Systems Architecture (RSA) team is looking to onboard a lead software engineering to its growing team. RSA allows Application Teams to focus on the functional business requirements, leaving the task of addressing various non-functional requirements to the underlying framework, platform components and infrastructure. The functional business logic layer deals in messages, the delivery of which is an event that invokes some processing on that message. Specific to Mastercard / payment systems these are typically financial messages. The non-functional requirements include, but are not limited to, security, traffic management, infrastructure-independent deployment, scalability, resiliency, high availability, consistent message delivery, delivery auditing, message delivery for failed/absent consumers, application lifecycle management, live/silent mode testing, stateful stream processing, strong consistency, observability, root cause detection and recovery. For developers we aim to provide a single manifest deployment and provisioning experience. This allows our developers to declaratively provision the shared services they need, wherever they need them (on-prem, cloud, edge) in a self-service manner so they can focus on solving real business problems and delivering exceptional value to our customers. Our customers can consume our services with as frictionless of an experience as possible to enable them to get up and running as fast as possible with the security and performance they need. All About You As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining Messaging systems, Stateful Event Processing systems and to contribute to observability, autonomics and scalability. As a Lead Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our observability platform. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems are transparent, measurable, and reliable. By leveraging your expertise in observability tools and techniques, you will help us gain deep insights into our applications, infrastructure, and user experiences. Responsibilities: • Design and develop robust observability solutions to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot highly distributed systems, especially message streaming systems, stateful even processing systems • Familiar with OTEL standards and tools. • Previous experience working with application teams to implement “self-healing” ... (truncated, view full listing at source)